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Other-Benefiting Lying Behavior in Preschool Children and Its Relation to Theory of Mind and Empathy

The present study examined children’s lies to help others obtain benefits (other-benefiting lying) and its relation to theory of mind (ToM) and empathy among 3–5-year-old preschool children. One hundred nine children were recruited from preschools in China. A modified hide-and-seek paradigm was used...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Xiaoyan, Wang, Shenqinyi, Wang, Ying, Zhao, Qiuming, Shang, Siyuan, Sai, Liyang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10451630/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37622774
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs13080634
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author Zhang, Xiaoyan
Wang, Shenqinyi
Wang, Ying
Zhao, Qiuming
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description The present study examined children’s lies to help others obtain benefits (other-benefiting lying) and its relation to theory of mind (ToM) and empathy among 3–5-year-old preschool children. One hundred nine children were recruited from preschools in China. A modified hide-and-seek paradigm was used to measure children’s other-benefiting lying behavior, a ToM scale was used to measure children’s ToM abilities, and an empathy scale was used to measure children’s empathy abilities. Results showed that children tended to tell more lies to help other to get benefits as age increased, and further analyses showed that this other-benefiting lying was related to children’s ToM component of false belief understanding and their cognitive empathy performance. These findings provide evidence that cognitive factors play important roles in children’s lying to help others.
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spelling pubmed-104516302023-08-26 Other-Benefiting Lying Behavior in Preschool Children and Its Relation to Theory of Mind and Empathy Zhang, Xiaoyan Wang, Shenqinyi Wang, Ying Zhao, Qiuming Shang, Siyuan Sai, Liyang Behav Sci (Basel) Article The present study examined children’s lies to help others obtain benefits (other-benefiting lying) and its relation to theory of mind (ToM) and empathy among 3–5-year-old preschool children. One hundred nine children were recruited from preschools in China. A modified hide-and-seek paradigm was used to measure children’s other-benefiting lying behavior, a ToM scale was used to measure children’s ToM abilities, and an empathy scale was used to measure children’s empathy abilities. Results showed that children tended to tell more lies to help other to get benefits as age increased, and further analyses showed that this other-benefiting lying was related to children’s ToM component of false belief understanding and their cognitive empathy performance. These findings provide evidence that cognitive factors play important roles in children’s lying to help others. MDPI 2023-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10451630/ /pubmed/37622774 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs13080634 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_sort other-benefiting lying behavior in preschool children and its relation to theory of mind and empathy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10451630/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37622774
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs13080634
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