Children's and adults' conceptualization and evaluation of lying and truth-telling

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 307-322

  Xu, Fen ^a   Luo, Yang C ^b   Fu, Genyue ^c   Lee, Kang ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese; Culture; Deception; Lying; Moral evaluation; Politeness; White lies

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349087085     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.631     Document Type: Article

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