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The truth about why kids lie, with Victoria Talwar, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

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The Intentionality Behind Lies

At what point does the child actually understand that here she is not telling the truth? Young children are much more likely to tell blunt truth. But as you get older, there's a significant increase in lies when you ask them why they're doing it. And we did find that even some of the three year olds would say, y i like it. Yo, yes. D youlthe a gift. Say, he do you like the gift i gave you? Yes. We found that the younger children couldn't really tell you why they liked it, whereas the older children could. So definitely telling intentional lies around that agere so when to kids start to understanding and tell what we call

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