Table 1.

Percent of Truthful Responses (Frequencies) to the Four Critical Questions in Each Condition During the First and Second Fact-Finding Interview in Experiment 1

	First interview			Second interview
Conditions	Parent absent	Parent present	Child absent	Parent absent	Parent present	Child absent
Question 1. What happened to the puppet? (“Mom broke it”)	52 (24/46)	46 (21/46)	22 (10/45)	85 (39/46)	96 (43/46)	60 (27/45)
Question 2. Did you break the puppet? (“No”)	100 (46/46)	98 (45/46)	100 (45/45)	100 (46/46)	100 (46/46)	100 (45/45)
Question 3. Did your mom (dad) break it? (“Yes”)	80 (37/46)	67 (31/46)	51 (23/45)	89 (41/46)	96 (43/45)	69 (31/45)
Question 4. Did someone else break it? (“No”)	98 (45/46)	96 (44/46)	76 (34/45)	91 (42/46)	91 (42/46)	78 (35/45)

Note. Typical responses in brackets.