PSYC 3P32 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Self-Awareness
3 Mar 2016
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Promoting honesty in the legal system: self awareness; moral discussion of truths and lies; promising to tell the truth; reassurance; putative confession. Parenting (essential in developing trusting relationships; and creating moral education programs) George washington and the cherry tree (tells father that he cant lie and that he cut down his tree; and father says he"d rather have a truthful son than 10k trees) Pinocchio (when he lies his nose grows and when he tells truth it shrinks) Tortoise and the hare (control condition)-not about honesty-just a simple moral story. After the story, the child was asked did you turn around and peek at toy when i left room? . Decreased lie telling in washington and tree story (focus was on positive benefits of telling the truth) Boy who cried wolf and pinocchio didn"t influence honesty (focus was on negative consequences of telling a lie) Either in african punitive (used corporal punishment like hitting with a stick/slapping) or african.
