New research finds that honesty isn’t really mom and dad’s policy.
, found that many kids have been indirectly taught by their parents that fibbing is a lesser risk than being truthful in uncomfortable situations.
Researchers had 142 parents watch a series of eight videos that placed a child actor in various scenarios where kids had been prompted to answer questions asked by their caregiver. One example was a child being asked to give up the location of their sister who was in trouble — and also apparently hiding beneath their house.Getty Images/iStockphotohad the kid admit, “She’s under the porch” — whereas the liar-liar-pants-on-fire said, “She went to the library.”
However, more subtle responses to the question had also been recorded. The dishonest version had the child answer, “I think she might have gone to bed or something,” and the truthful one had the reply: “I think she might be outside.”Parents sometimes would rather their children lie to be polite, a new study shows.Parents were then asked to rate the child’s trustworthiness, kindness, good behavior, competency, likeability, friendliness, intelligence, honesty and their overall warmth.
“While brutal honesty might elicit dislike, it may also engender a perception that the individual can be trusted — that one offering such a blunt assessment must be honest.”
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