Table 1.
Frequency (%) of children in Experiment 2 who classified a statement as a lie, the truth, or something else for each story
| Lie for self story |
Lie for collective story |
Truth-telling for self story |
Truth-telling for collective story |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Lie | Not lie(a) | Lie | Not lie(a) | Truth | Not truth(b) | Truth | Not truth(b) |
| 7 | 98 (93.3%) | 7-3/4(c) (6.7%) | 96 (91.4%) | 9-5/4 (8.6%) | 99 (94.3%) | 6-2/4 (5.7%) | 103 (98.1%) | 2-0/2 (1.9%) |
| 9 | 85 (93.4%) | 6-0/6 (6.6%) | 80 (87.9%) | 11-3/8 (12.1%) | 82 (92.3%) | 9-5/4 (7.7%) | 87 (95.6%) | 4-0/4 (4.4%) |
| 11 | 91 (95.8%) | 4-2/2 (4.2%) | 70 (73.7%) | 25-2/23 (26.3%) | 89 (93.7%) | 6-1/5 (6.3%) | 93 (97.9%) | 2-2/0 (2.1%) |
(a)
Note: Not lie includes both truth and neither responses
(b)
Not truth includes both lie and neither responses
(c)
Where the truth and neither or the lie and neither responses differed they were noted.
For example: 7-3/4 here means that 7 children classified an untruthful statement not as a lie, of whom 3 gave the ‘truth’ responses and 4 gave the ‘neither responses’. The lower score always represents the neither category.