I am the A.C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University, where I do research in ethics, moral psychology, and philosophy of religion. I have led projects on character which have received over $10 million in grant funding from the Templeton Foundation, most recently for the Honesty Project.
My children don’t always wash their hands after they use the bathroom. Big surprise, right? And they don’t always tell me the truth either when I ask them if they washed their hands. Again, no surprise there.Still, it would be nice to find ways to try to encourage greater honesty in children, and instill in them truthful habits that will stay with them as they get older. Two new studiessuggest some promising ways of doing just this.
Child placed in front of mirror and asked to point to parts of their face and report their name and grade, before being asked about peeking.· Result for 7-8 year olds: Roughly 100% still lied.· Result for 3-4 year olds: Roughly 60% still lied.· Result for 3-4 year olds: Roughly 70% lied.These are all “rough” percentages since the study did not report exact numbers.
The other strategy had to do with emphasizing the good consequences of telling the truth. Evans and Talwar used the same story with the broken picture for this too, but changed what the mom said to: “Who broke the picture? No matter what happened, I would not be mad at you. If you tell me the truth, I will be really pleased with you. I will feel happy if you tell the truth.”
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