Child Maltreatment and Honesty

一支拥有发展心理学、儿童和家庭法以及法医专业知识的研究团队 心理学提出了一系列的研究，以检查诚实的年轻虐待和非虐待 孩子该提案包括四个相互关联的项目。第一个项目将研究 孩子们对诚实的基本概念的理解，包括对诚实的区分的早期概念， 在真理和谎言之间，对违法行为保密的评价，以及对违法行为的评价。 承诺背后的义务第二个项目将研究诚实的决定因素， 可能鼓励不诚实的煽动者和鼓励诚实的顺从采访者的行为， 以及评估可能产生影响的儿童特征，包括虐待状况，年龄， 和对诚实的态度。第三个项目将研究诚实的语言和非语言指标， 被教唆者教导撒谎或被接受者鼓励诚实的儿童。第四个项目 将检查是否外行或专业的成年人能够区分诚实和不诚实的孩子。 这项研究将检验这样一种假设，即受虐待儿童的理解能力受到低估， 对于不敏感的任务，受虐待的儿童的诚实可以通过各种方式增加真理 归纳法，并通过对被虐待儿童诚实性的多维度分析， 语言和非语言手段。这项研究是独一无二的，因为它有可能应用于调查， 对儿童虐待索赔的裁决，因为这是第一个利用工具的持续研究方案 评估和影响诚实，这对儿童虐待专业人员可能有用， 检查这些工具在实际上是干预对象的儿童中的效用。这些发现 有可能改善虐待儿童的做法，从而确保实际上需要的儿童 保护儿童免遭虐待的行为被发现，他们的报告被相信。

A team of researchers with expertise in developmental psychology, child and family law, and forensic psychology propose a series of studies to examine honesty in young maltreated and non-maltreated children. The proposal consists four interconnected projects. The first project will examine the development of children's understanding of concepts underlying honesty, including early conceptions of the distinction between the truth and lies, the evaluation of secret-keeping regarding transgressions, and the evaluation of the obligations underlying promises. The second project will examine the determinants of honesty, varying the actions of instigators who may encourage dishonesty and recipient-interviewers who encourage honesty, and assessing characteristics of the child that may have an influence, including maltreatment status, age, and attitudes about honesty. The third project will examine the verbal and nonverbal indices of honesty in children who were coached to lie by instigators or encouraged to be truthful by recipients. The fourth project will examine whether either lay or professional adults are able to distinguish honest from dishonest children. The research will test hypotheses that maltreated children's understanding is subject to underestimation due to insensitive tasks, that maltreated children's honesty can be increased through various means of truth induction, and that maltreated children's honesty can be discriminated through multidimensional analysis of verbal and nonverbal measures. The research is unique in its potential application to the investigation and adjudication of child maltreatment claims, insofar as it is the first sustained research program to uitilize tools for assessing and influencing honesty that are potentially useful to child maltreatment professionals and to examine the utility of those tools in children who are in fact the subject of intervention. The findings have potential to improve child maltreatment practice and thus to ensure that children who do in fact need protection from maltreatment are detected and their reports believed.