This meta‐analysis investigated the link between lying and theory‐of‐mind (ToM) by
integrating findings from 81 studies involving 7,826 children between 2 and 14 years of age …

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder with multifactorial causes, characterized by major
cognitive deficits in communication, socialization and emotion recognition and management …

Scientific research on how children learn to tell lies has existed for more than a century.
Earlier studies mainly focused on moral, social, and situational factors contributing to the …

Social robots have been increasingly involved in our daily lives and provide a new
environment for children's growth. The current study aimed to examine how children with …

Abstract “Deception” is defined predominantly as the intentional attempt to create false‐
beliefs in others. However, the intentionality behind early acts of deception and its relation to …

We study cheating behavior in a large sample of elementary school children in the context of
a creative performance task, in the presence and absence of performance incentives. Our …

This study used longitudinal cross-lagged modeling to examine the contribution of theory of
mind (ToM), executive function (EF) to children's lying development and of children's lying to …

Children come to recognize that the impressions one makes on other people can be
controlled and managed. In this chapter, the authors situate the development of such “self …

Recent evolutionary, cultural, and economic theories have postulated strong connections
between human sociality and complex cognition. One prediction derived from this work is …

Early on, young children begin to learn the social skills which will help them navigate
through an increasingly complex social world. We explored how deceiving for personal gain …