{"id":2066,"date":"2014-06-20T16:43:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T21:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2014-06-21T19:17:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T00:17:20","slug":"do-morality-tales-actually-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/do-morality-tales-actually-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Do morality tales actually work?<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When it comes to getting kids to tell the truth, \u201cPinocchio\u201d has got nothing on \u201cGeorge Washington and the Cherry Tree,\u201d a\u00a0new experiment suggests. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers tested 268 children aged 3 to 7 to see if they would admit to an innocuous lie. Those who were read stories like \u201cPinocchio\u201d &#8211; in which liars are punished &#8211; admitted to lying no more often than those who were read neutral tales like \u201cThe Tortoise and the Hare.\u201d However, the story of George Washington and the cherry tree did raise the rate at which kids admitted to lying, possibly because in that story liars are rewarded for telling the truth. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers confirmed this by changing the ending to one in which the lie is punished; confession rates dropped accordingly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pss.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2014\/06\/11\/0956797614536401.abstract\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the journal<em>\u00a0Psychological Science\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>June 13, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kang Lee, University of Toronto, Ontario<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to getting kids to tell the truth, \u201cPinocchio\u201d has got nothing on \u201cGeorge Washington and the Cherry Tree,\u201d a\u00a0new experiment suggests. Researchers tested 268 children aged 3 to 7 to see if they would admit to an innocuous lie. Those who were read stories like \u201cPinocchio\u201d &#8211; in which liars are punished [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1510,975,203,1805,50,1508],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-behaviour","tag-children","tag-ethics","tag-morality","tag-ontario","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-xk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2093,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions\/2093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}