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- Title
Messaging about descriptive and injunctive norms can promote honesty in young children.
- Authors
Liu, Xingchen; Zhao, Changzhi; Zhang, Xiaoyan; Compton, Brian J.; Sai, Liyang; Heyman, Gail D.
- Abstract
This research examined the effectiveness of using norms to promote honesty. Participants were Han Chinese children (N = 568, 50.4% male, 3.24 to 6.00 years, collected 2020-2022). Relative to children in a control condition, children in Study 1 were more likely to confess to having cheated in a game after being presented with a descriptive norm indicating that confessions are typical, or an injunctive norm indicating that most other children approve of confessing. Study 2 showed that this finding was not due to a methodological artifact, and Study 3 replicated the effect in a context in which the norm information was conveyed by someone other than the experimenter. The findings suggest that messages about social norms can influence children's honesty.
- Subjects
SOCIAL norms; HONESTY; CHILD psychology; CHEATING (Games); CHINESE people; RESEARCH funding; DECEPTION
- Publication
Child Development, 2022, Vol 93, Issue 6, pe598
- ISSN
0009-3920
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/cdev.13830