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Aug. 20, 2008 -- Children can be quite imaginative. But how often does a child fool an adult into believing that something didn't happen?
New research shows that children are able to fool adults quite readily when it comes to believing that a real event did not actually happen.
But adults were a bit better at sniffing out the truth when a child lied about a false event, filling in the blanks to pretend that it took place.
Study co-author Gail Goodman, PhD, says in a news release that "the large number of children coming into contact with the legal system, mostly as a result of abuse cases, has motivated intense scientific effort to understand children's true and false reports."
Goodman is a psychology professor with the University of California, Davis.
She and her team had more than 100 adults view videotapes of 3- to 5-year-old boys and girls being interviewed about certain made-up or real events.
The children were asked things like: "Who was there when you got in trouble because you were playing on the rocks?"
Some of those events actually did take place; others were made up.
For the events that did happen, children either confirmed that it took place or denied that it occurred.
When it came to the made-up events, children either fibbed, saying that it did in fact happen, or they truthfully said that it did not take place.
The adult participants were then asked to watch the videotapes and to act as if they were a juror on a real case.
The researchers found that adults were "relatively" able to nail the made-up events.
But when it came to the denials, adults tended to believe when children lied that an event did not happen when it actually did occur.
Adults were "especially likely" to believe that a child was telling the truth when they made a denial.
"The findings suggest that adults are better at detecting false reports than they are at detecting false denials," Goodman says.
She says that "while accurately detecting false reports protects innocent people from false allegations, the failure to detect false denials could mean that adults fail to protect children who falsely deny actual victimization."
The research builds on other studies that showed that it is easier for adults to detect if younger rather than older children are lying.
Younger children apparently are not as good as covering up clues that they are lying.
Another study showed that adults are not so great at knowing when someone is lying, even if they have been trained to do so.
In prepared statements, study author Goodman adds "the seriousness of abuse charges and the frequency with which children's testimony provides central prosecutorial evidence makes children's eyewitness memory abilities important considerations. Arguably even more important, however, are adults' abilities to evaluate children's reports."
The research was presented at the American Psychological Association's annual meeting in Boston.
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孩子撒谎，成人受骗
Aug. 20, 2008 -- Children can be quite imaginative. But how often does a child fool an adult into believing that something didn't happen?
2008年8月20日--孩子们很具有想象力。一个孩子会经常欺骗成年人，让他相信没有发生任何事情吗？
New research shows that children are able to fool adults quite readily when it comes to believing that a real event did not actually happen.
一项新的研究显示，孩子们能够让成年人轻易地相信一件真实的事情并没有发生过。
But adults were a bit better at sniffing out the truth when a child lied about a false event, filling in the blanks to pretend that it took place.
但是当一个孩子撒谎编造一个从来没有发生的故事时，大人发现事情真相的表现稍好一些。
Study co-author Gail Goodman, PhD, says in a news release that "the large number of children coming into contact with the legal system, mostly as a result of abuse cases, has motivated intense scientific effort to understand children's true and false reports."
研究的合作者Gail Goodman博士在一次新闻发布会上说：“涉及司法案件的大量儿童，其中多数是儿童虐待案件，促使我们进行深入的科学研究，了解儿童所陈述事件的真实性。”
Goodman is a psychology professor with the University of California, Davis.
Goodman是一位加州大学的心理学教授。
She and her team had more than 100 adults view videotapes of 3- to 5-year-old boys and girls being interviewed about certain made-up or real events.
她和她的研究小组让100位成年人观看一些录像，这些录像记录了对一些年龄在3－5岁的男女儿童关于某个编造故事或真实事件的问询。
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