Children's knowledge of deceptive gaze cues and its relation to their actual lying behavior

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 117-134

  McCarthy, Anjanie ^a   Lee, Kang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Averted eye gaze; Children; Deception; Display rule knowledge; Eye contact; Eye gaze; Nonverbal behavior; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECUMBENCY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CUES; DECEPTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIE DETECTION; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349254955     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2008.06.005     Document Type: Article

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