Lee - Truth Telling

• Background

  • interested in how children make moral decisions - has relevance to children as eyewitnesses in court (need to understand the difference between lie and truth telling
  • western focus of research

  -- focused on children from individualistic cultures

  -- wanted research from a more collectivist culture - China
• Aims

  • to compare children from individualist and collectivist cultures (Canadian and Chinese)
  • expectations was that:

  -- prosocial situations would have differences

  -- Chinese ppts would rate truth telling less positively and lie telling less negatively - increase with age

  -- antisocial situations there would be no difference
• design

  • 4 IVS

  1. independent measures / lab
  2. repeated measures
  3. cross-sectional / quasi experiment
  4. cross-cultural / quasi experiment

  • DV was the rating given to the story, on a 7-point rating scale
• sample

  • 2 groups of children, each group divided into 3 age groups and males and females