Parenting by lying and children’s lying to parents: the moderating role of children’s beliefs

• Main Authors: Low, Petrina Hui Xian, Kyeong, Yena, Broekman, Birit, Eriksson, Johan Gunnar, Chen, Helen Yu, Setoh, Peipei
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Working Paper
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Social Sciences
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177807
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Introduction: How are children socialized about lying? One way is when parents lie to their children for parenting purposes, known as parenting by lying. Children’s perceptions of such lies (i.e., instrumental lies for their compliance, white lies for their benefit) are crucial to how they learn to...