The power of the lens: Filming increases honesty in children as young as five
Liyang Sai,
Yue Bi,
Chengfei Yu
et al.
Abstract:As early as 5 years of age, children begin to manage their reputations strategically. We investigated whether the reputation concern elicited by filming affected children's mental cheating, which is a form of cheating that cannot be detected even if someone else is watching. During the test, the experimenter was in the room with children, and we operationalized reputational cues as whether the video camera was actively recording or not. We compared the self‐reported accuracy of a filmed group versus a non‐film… Show more
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