The Nature and Effects of Young Children's Lies

By A. Wilson, Melissa D. Smith, H. Ross. 2003

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Participants Don’t Need Theories (2004, background): “…this redefinition can the development of deception actually be explored (as Wilson and colleagues did in their study, by defining deception in functional terms as ‘any false statement whose function required that others believe the lie or, at least, act as if they did’, Wilson et al., 2003, p. 42).”
• Children's lies and their detection: Implications for child witness testimony (2012, background): “However, in large part, it appears that children are motivated to tell lies for the same reasons as adults (Newton et al., 2000; Stouthamer-Loeber, 1986; Wilson et al., 2003).”