Do As I Say and Not As I Think: Parent Socialisation of Lie‐Telling Behaviour |
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| Authors: | Jennifer Lavoie Karissa Leduc Angela M Crossman Victoria Talwar |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada;2. Department of Psychology, Université de Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada;3. John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA |
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| Abstract: | This study explored parent (N = 146) perspectives about situations in which they think it is acceptable to lie, how this corresponds to how they socialise their children about lie‐telling and their children's actual behaviour. Results indicated the methods parents report using to teach their children about the acceptability of lie‐telling are consistent with what they report teaching their children about lie‐telling overall. Also, the frequency of lies that children told (N = 88) to protect themselves from psychological distress or conflict differed between those who were taught that lying is sometimes acceptable versus those taught it is never acceptable. |
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| Keywords: | behaviour development child lie‐telling moral behaviour parent socialisation |
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