Children's Knowledge of Deceptive Gaze Cues and Its Relation to Their Actual Lying Behavior

Autor/inn/en	McCarthy, Anjanie; Lee, Kang
Titel	Children's Knowledge of Deceptive Gaze Cues and Its Relation to Their Actual Lying Behavior
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 103 (2009) 2, S.117-134 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0965
DOI	10.1016/j.jecp.2008.06.005
Schlagwörter	Cues; Nonverbal Communication; Human Body; Deception; Behavior Patterns; Children; Eye Movements; Communication (Thought Transfer); Early Adolescents; Adults; Developmental Stages + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Stichwort; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Menschlicher Körper; Täuschung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Augenbewegung; Communication; thought; Kommunikation; Gedanke
Abstract	Eye gaze plays a pivotal role during communication. When interacting deceptively, it is commonly believed that the deceiver will break eye contact and look downward. We examined whether children's gaze behavior when lying is consistent with this belief. In our study, 7- to 15-year-olds and adults answered questions truthfully ("Truth" questions) or untruthfully ("Lie" questions) or answered questions that required thinking ("Think" questions). Younger participants (7- and 9-year-olds) broke eye contact significantly more when lying compared with other conditions. Also, their averted gaze when lying differed significantly from their gaze display in other conditions. In contrast, older participants did not differ in their durations of eye contact or averted gaze across conditions. Participants' knowledge about eye gaze and deception increased with age. This knowledge significantly predicted their actual gaze behavior when lying. These findings suggest that with increased age, participants became increasingly sophisticated in their use of display rule knowledge to conceal their deception. (Contains 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10