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Informationen zum Autor Kang Lee is Associate Professor of Psychology at Queen's University! Canada.Victoria Talwar is a doctoral student at Queen's University! Canada. Klappentext Children and Lying reviews all the scientific evidence about the development of lying from the last century. Using a speech act theoretical approach! it integrates the findings of previous research in order to present a coherent picture of the development of lying.The text starts by discussing the conceptual issues involved in the analysis of lying and provides a brief historic account of the relevant developmental research. The authors then cover animal deception and lying in adults as points of comparison! before moving on to investigate four main aspects of lying from a developmental perspective: children's concept of lying! their moral judgments of lying! the development of lie-detection abilities! and children's lie-telling behavior in various contexts.Finally! the authors offer an overview of the practical implications of this research in educational! clinical! and legal settings! and suggest directions for future research in the field. Zusammenfassung Children and Lying reviews the full body of scientific research about the development of lying in children and analyzes the various cognitive! social-cultural! and neural factors that affect the development of lying. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Children's Conceptions of LyingChapter 3. Morality of Lying To Be Polite or To Save FaceChapter 4. Morality of Lying for a Group and to be ModestChapter 5. Children's Lie-telling: Part 1Chapter 6. Children's Lie-telling: Part 2Chapter 7. The Gullibility of Children: Lie-detection in childhoodChapter 8. Truth and Lie-Telling in the Legal ContextChapter 9. Lying in the Clinical Contexts
