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Children’s moral evaluations of lying for one’s ingroup member

Abstract

The present experiments investigated moral judgments of blue lies­a false statement to conceal an ingroup member's moral transgressions. Adults and children were presented with vignettes and asked to evaluate the decisions of a protagonist who did not report their ingroup member’s (ingroup condition) or outgroup member's (outgroup condition) moral transgressions to a third person. The results showed that adults (Study 1) and 5-year-old children (Study 2A) evaluated the protagonist as more morally acceptable in the ingroup than in the outgroup condition; whereas 4-year-old children (Study 2B) did not show the difference across conditions. These results suggest that children’s moral justification of blue lies emerges around 5 years of age.

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Submission Date
2019-01-15
Revised Date
2019-02-24
Accepted Date
2019-02-28

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