
A new study published in the journal Cognition suggests that children are able to identify when an adult is lying or not telling the whole truth and the adult tends to lose the trust of the child.
The study was conducted by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in US who conducted two experiments on a group of 42 six and seven-year-olds in order to identify how the kids evaluated information.
The children were told by a teacher that a toy performed just one of the four functions that it actually performed. Some of the children who were familiar with the toy explored it much more thoroughly than children who had seen a complete demonstration, suggesting that they did not trust the teacher.
Source: Medindia
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