Table 3.
Percentage and Frequency of Chinese and Canadian Children’s Classifications of Story Characters’ Truthful or Untruthful Statements in Experiment 4
| Story and country | Age (years) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 |
9 |
11 |
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| % | Frequency | % | Frequency | % | Frequency | |
| Story 1: Lie to help self but harm collective | ||||||
| China | 96 | 25/26 | 100 | 23/23 | 96 | 26/27 |
| Canada | 86 | 31/36 | 91 | 29/32 | 90 | 27/30 |
| Story 2: Lie to help collective but harm self | ||||||
| China | 96 | 25/26 | 83 | 19/23 | 82 | 22/27 |
| Canada | 97 | 35/36 | 100 | 32/32 | 100 | 30/30 |
| Story 3: Truth to help self but harm collective | ||||||
| China | 92 | 24/26 | 83 | 19/23 | 96 | 26/27 |
| Canada | 92 | 33/36 | 100 | 32/32 | 100 | 32/32 |
| Story 4: Truth to help collective but harm self | ||||||
| China | 96 | 25/26 | 96 | 22/23 | 96 | 26/27 |
| Canada | 92 | 33/36 | 84 | 27/32 | 83 | 25/30 |