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Bagnall, Ralph; Russell, Ailsa; Brosnan, Mark; Maras, Katie – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
The ability to deceive is a key milestone in social cognitive development for typically developing individuals. In this scoping review, we systematically searched the literature to summarise research on deceptive behaviour in autism and identify gaps in knowledge. Across the 28 studies identified, three main themes were synthesised, with seven…
Descriptors: Deception, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Incidence
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Ma, Fengling; Evans, Angela D.; Liu, Ying; Luo, Xianming; Xu, Fen – Journal of Moral Education, 2015
Prior studies have demonstrated that social-cognitive factors such as children's false-belief understanding and parenting style are related to children's lie-telling behaviors. The present study aimed to investigate how earlier forms of theory-of-mind understanding contribute to children's lie-telling as well as how parenting practices are related…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Parenting Styles, Deception, Antisocial Behavior
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Evans, Angela D.; Xu, Fen; Lee, Kang – Developmental Psychology, 2011
Young children's ability to tell a strategic lie by making it consistent with the physical evidence of their transgression was investigated along with the sociocognitive correlates of such lie-telling behaviors. In Experiment 1, 247 Chinese children between 3 and 5 years of age (126 boys) were left alone in a room and asked not to lift a cup to…
Descriptors: Deception, Young Children, Males, Nonverbal Communication