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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 5.
Published in final edited form as: J Moral Educ. 2009 Sep 1;38(3):353–369. doi: 10.1080/03057240903101630

Table 3.

Mean lie-telling and evaluation scores from parents in Study 2

Scenario Lie-telling score (SD) Evaluation score (SD)
Behaviour
  Food 1.84 (1.48) 1.96 (1.34)
 Police 2.28 (1.82) 2.22 (1.44)
 Money 2.80 (2.01) 2.86 (1.61)
 Boogeyman 2.29 (1.89) 2.26 (1.57)
 Monster: sleep 2.02 (1.70) 1.97 (1.14)
 Monster: vegetables 1.39 (1.02) 1.57 (1.02)
Emotion
 Uncle 3.53 (2.20) 4.80 (1.66)
 Rainbow 3.83 (2.13) 4.57 (1.49)
  Cleaning 3.82 (2.13) 3.92 (1.82)

Note: Response scale ranged from 1 = definitely no to 7 = definitely yes on the lie-telling measure; 1 = very bad to 7 = very good on the evaluation measure.