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- Title
Moral suggestibility: the complex interaction of developmental, cultural and contextual factors.
- Authors
Saltzstein, Herbert; Dias, Maria Da G.; Millery, Mari
- Abstract
In Study 1, 193 children, half in New York City and half in Recife, Brazil, heard hypothetical dilemmas about whether to keep a promise or tell the truth. An adult interviewer suggested the alternative to the child's initial choice. Younger children (5 to 8 year olds) were more suggestible than older children (10 to 12 year olds), US more than Brazilian children; and suggestibility occurred more frequently from promise to truth than vice versa. In Study 2, children in each country were interviewed either by an older adult or by a ‘teenager’. Suggestibility was greater when the interviewer was an adult than a teenager in the US, but not in Brazil. Findings are discussed in terms of developmental trajectories, from heteronomy to autonomy, and authority relations within cultures. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
TRUTHFULNESS &; falsehood in children; PROMISES; RELIABILITY (Personality trait); CHILD psychology; MENTAL suggestion
- Publication
Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2004, Vol 18, Issue 8, p1079
- ISSN
0888-4080
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/acp.1077