Communication between children and parents has been the subject of several studies,
examining the effects of, for example, disclosure and secrecy on adolescents' social …

Parenting by lying refers to the parenting practice of deception to try to control children's
behavioral and affective states. Although the practice is widely observed across cultures, few …

Lie-telling and secret-keeping are common behaviors during adolescence. Given the
importance of honesty for building trust in positive relationships, the present study examined …

Parents around the world engage in the practice of parenting by lying, which entails lying to
manipulate children's emotional states and behavior. The current study is the first to examine …

Introduction Whether adolescents' routine disclosure to parents is voluntary is assumed but
rarely assessed. Researchers also have not examined whether disclosure and lying are …

Delinquent youth display weaker attachment to their parents than do other youth, but the
reasons for this remain unclear. One explanation is that delinquent youth poison their …

Children's use of deception in a naturalistic setting was observed longitudinally in 40
families when children were 2 and 4 years old, and again two years later. Goals included …

Objective. This study examines the reciprocal associations among child secrecy, parent-
child communication, parental knowledge of children's activities, and child social adjustment …

In this study, 229 high school students and 261 college students evaluated the acceptability
of lying to parents under 19 different circumstances where a person's motive for lying …

Much research has shown that adolescent–parent relationships are transformed during
adolescence from unilateral to mutual forms of authority and from dependence to …