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The Emergence of Lying for Reputational Concerns in 5-Year-Olds
Research suggests that even young children engage in strategic behaviors to manipulate the impressions others form of them and that they manage their reputation in order to cooperate with others. The current study investigated whether young children also lie in order to manage their, or their group’...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8494249/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34630210 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.700695 |
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author | Klafka, Mareike Liszkowski, Ulf |
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description | Research suggests that even young children engage in strategic behaviors to manipulate the impressions others form of them and that they manage their reputation in order to cooperate with others. The current study investigated whether young children also lie in order to manage their, or their group’s, reputation in front of ingroup and outgroup members. Five-year old children (n=55) were randomly assigned to an individual reputation condition or a group reputation condition. Then, they played a mini dictator game in which they could share privately any number of their or their group’s stickers with an anonymous child. Participants then met ingroup and outgroup members, established through a minimal group design, via a pre-recorded, staged Skype call. Group members asked the participant how many stickers she, or her group, had donated. Results revealed that children stated to peers to have donated more than their actual donation, with no differences between conditions and no difference toward ingroup and outgroup members. Findings suggest that by 5years of age, children use lying as a strategy to manage their reputation. |
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spelling | pubmed-84942492021-10-07 The Emergence of Lying for Reputational Concerns in 5-Year-Olds Klafka, Mareike Liszkowski, Ulf Front Psychol Psychology Research suggests that even young children engage in strategic behaviors to manipulate the impressions others form of them and that they manage their reputation in order to cooperate with others. The current study investigated whether young children also lie in order to manage their, or their group’s, reputation in front of ingroup and outgroup members. Five-year old children (n=55) were randomly assigned to an individual reputation condition or a group reputation condition. Then, they played a mini dictator game in which they could share privately any number of their or their group’s stickers with an anonymous child. Participants then met ingroup and outgroup members, established through a minimal group design, via a pre-recorded, staged Skype call. Group members asked the participant how many stickers she, or her group, had donated. Results revealed that children stated to peers to have donated more than their actual donation, with no differences between conditions and no difference toward ingroup and outgroup members. Findings suggest that by 5years of age, children use lying as a strategy to manage their reputation. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-09-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8494249/ /pubmed/34630210 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.700695 Text en Copyright © 2021 Klafka and Liszkowski. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Klafka, Mareike Liszkowski, Ulf The Emergence of Lying for Reputational Concerns in 5-Year-Olds |
title | The Emergence of Lying for Reputational Concerns in 5-Year-Olds |
title_full | The Emergence of Lying for Reputational Concerns in 5-Year-Olds |
title_fullStr | The Emergence of Lying for Reputational Concerns in 5-Year-Olds |
title_full_unstemmed | The Emergence of Lying for Reputational Concerns in 5-Year-Olds |
title_short | The Emergence of Lying for Reputational Concerns in 5-Year-Olds |
title_sort | emergence of lying for reputational concerns in 5-year-olds |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8494249/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34630210 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.700695 |
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