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- Title
Adults' Detection of Deception in Children: Effect of Coaching and Age for Children's True and Fabricated Reports of Injuries.
- Authors
Warren, Kelly L.; Bakhtiar, Aishah; Mulrooney, Brent; Raynor, Graham; Dodd, Elyse; Peterson, Carole
- Abstract
A total of 1,074 undergraduates judged the truthfulness of children's interviews (from verbatim transcripts) about experiencing injuries serious enough to require hospital emergency room treatment. Ninety-six children (three age groups: 5-7, 8-10, and 11-14 years, 50% girls) were interviewed. At each age, 16 children told truthful accounts of actual injury experiences and 16 fabricated their reports, with half of each group coached by parents for the previous 4 days. Lies by 5- to 7-year-olds, whether coached or not, were detected at above-chance levels. In contrast, 8- to 10-year-olds' accounts that were coached, whether true or not, were more likely to be believed. For 11- to 14-year-olds, adults were less likely to accurately judge lies if they were coached. The believability of children aged 8 or above who were coached to lie is particularly disturbing in light of the finding that participants were more confident in the accuracy of their veracity decisions when judging coached reports.
- Subjects
DECEPTION; WOUNDS &; injuries; CHILD psychology; JUDGING; PARENTAL influences
- Publication
Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 2015, Vol 33, Issue 6, p784
- ISSN
0735-3936
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1002/bsl.2210