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Direct linkTong, Donia; Wyman, Joshua; Talwar, Victoria – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2021
There is a need to tell if children are providing truthful testimonies in legal cases. This study examined differences between children's true and false statements obtained using either an interview that included cognitive instructions or one that did not. Children witnessed a theft that they were asked to deny and were interviewed with or without…
Descriptors: Children, Deception, Interviews, Ethics
Wyman, Joshua; Foster, Ida; Crossman, Angela; Colwell, Kevin; Talwar, Victoria – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2019
The current study evaluated the benefits of free-recall, cognitive load, and closed-ended questions on children's (ages 6 to 11; N = 147) true and false eyewitness disclosures. Children witnessed an experimenter find a stranger's wallet and were then asked to make a false denial, false accusation, true denial, or true accusation regarding an…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Questioning Techniques
Talwar, Victoria; Yachison, Sarah; Leduc, Karissa; Nagar, Pooja Megha – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2018
Children (n = 202; 4 to 7 years old) witnessed a confederate break a toy and were asked to keep the transgression a secret. Children were randomly assigned to a Coaching condition (i.e., No Coaching, Light Coaching, or Heavy Coaching) and a Moral Story condition (i.e., Positive or Neutral). Overall, 89.7% of children lied about the broken toy when…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Deception, Toys, Coaching (Performance)
Liu, David; Vanderbilt, Kimberly E.; Heyman, Gail D. – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Children's epistemic vigilance was examined for their reasoning about the intentions and outcomes of informants' past testimony. In a 2 x 2 factorial design, 5- and 6-year-olds witnessed informants offering advice based on the intent to help or deceive others about the location of hidden prizes, with the advice leading to positive or negative…
Descriptors: Intention, Trust (Psychology), Thinking Skills, Factor Analysis
Einav, Shiri; Hood, Bruce M. – Developmental Psychology, 2008
This study examined whether the well-documented adult tendency to perceive gaze aversion as a lying cue is also evident in children. In Experiment 1, 6-year-olds, 9-year-olds, and adults were shown video vignettes of speakers who either maintained or avoided eye contact while answering an interviewer's questions. Participants evaluated whether the…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Nonverbal Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Gender Differences
Oliver, Lauren – 1987
Arguments for and against banning television commercials aimed at children under age 12, as well as the role of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the First Amendment, and parents in regulating such commercials, are explored in this paper. Following an introduction that describes the controversy, a second section of the paper details the…
Descriptors: Advertising, Children, Childrens Rights, Childrens Television
