Many young people are inclined toward risk taking and also toward helping other people.
Prosocial risk taking is a term that can describe different ways that youth provide significant …

Lying is a complex behavior with an inconstant value shifting from morally reprehensible to
socially sanctioned, given the context of the statement. As such, the acquisition of a mature …

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 …

Adolescence has been suggested to be a time of heightened lie-telling. The current study
used a latent profile analysis to examine unique patterns of lie-telling for lies told to parents …

Lie acceptability is defined as an attitude toward lying that can vary along a continuum, from
considering that lying is completely unacceptable, to a most lenient view upon deception …

Reports of academic cheating trigger fears of moral decay. Cheating looks like a dying
canary in the coal mine of morality. But this diagnosis assumes that those who cheat lack, or …

Background. A growing body of evidence shows that people's attitudes toward lies could be
predictive of their actual deceptive behavior. However, few studies have examined both …

While previous studies have demonstrated correlations between children and adolescents'
evaluations of lies and lie‐telling behaviors, the temporal order of these associations over …

This study examined the role of age, maltreatment status, and executive functioning on 752
4-to 9-year-old maltreated and nonmaltreated children's recall disclosure of a transgression …

Concealing information requires that adolescents manage the information that they share,
which requires cognitive skills, for example, theory of mind (ToM). This study explored …