Practice What you Preach? Exploring Attitudes, Lying Behavior, and Teaching About Lying among Dutch Parents ...

Previous studies on parental lying indicate that even though most parents think and teach their children that lying is wrong, nearly all parents lie to their children. Evidence from previous studies suggests a discrepancy between parental attitudes toward lying to children, their lying behaviors, and their teaching about lying. However, this apparent discrepancy could be an artifact resulting from variations in the conceptualization of “lying” in previous studies. For example, some specifically focused on instrumental parental lie-telling or parenting by lying (i.e., lies to influence the chil... Mehr ...