Table 1.
Percentage and Frequency of Chinese and Canadian Children’s Classifications of Story Characters’ Truthful or Untruthful Statements in Experiment 3
| Story and country | Age (years) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 |
9 |
11 |
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| % | Frequency | % | Frequency | % | Frequency | |
| Story 1: Lie to help friend but harm collective | ||||||
| China | 97 | 29/30 | 97 | 29/30 | 100 | 30/30 |
| Canada | 72 | 13/18 | 87 | 20/23 | 79 | 19/24 |
| Story 2: Lie to help collective but harm friend | ||||||
| China | 97 | 26/30 | 100 | 30/30 | 100 | 30/30 |
| Canada | 78 | 14/18 | 100 | 23/23 | 100 | 24/24 |
| Story 3: Truth to help friend but harm collective | ||||||
| China | 87 | 26/30 | 97 | 29/30 | 97 | 29/30 |
| Canada | 94 | 17/18 | 87 | 20/23 | 96 | 23/24 |
| Story 4: Truth to help collective but harm friend | ||||||
| China | 90 | 27/30 | 97 | 29/30 | 97 | 29/30 |
| Canada | 78 | 14/18 | 83 | 19/23 | 92 | 22/24 |