Development of Cultural Perspectives on Verbal Deception in Competitive Contexts

Autor:	Jesse Ho-Yin Lo, Catherine Ann Cameron, Kang Lee, Dana Dmytro, Jennifer O’Leary, Genyue Fu
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Class (computer programming) Social Psychology Statement (logic) media_common.quotation_subject Deception Developmental psychology Harm Moral development Social cognition Anthropology Cross-cultural Psychology Social psychology Lying media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 45:1196-1214
ISSN:	1552-5422 0022-0221
DOI:	10.1177/0022022114535485
Popis:	Verbal deception may be considered morally reprehensible or acceptable depending on culturally relevant contextual factors and ethical perspectives. In the current study, Euro-Canadian ( n = 180) and Han Chinese ( n = 180) children ages 8 to 16 were recruited to investigate their moral evaluations of lying and truth-telling in competitive situations. The participants classified a story character’s statement told to either harm or help themselves or collectives of various group sizes (i.e., their class, school, or country) as a lie, the truth, or something else. Participants then made moral judgments regarding the statements and provided justifications for their evaluations. Chinese children’s evaluations became more nuanced with age: They evaluated lies told to benefit a collective as less negative than Canadian children, and truths told to harm a collective as more negative. These evaluations became more pronounced with the increasing size of the collectivity. Cultural and contextual factors relevant to evaluations and justifications of verbal deception are discussed.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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