Understanding Promises: Legal and Everyday Implications

这项研究将有助于更好地理解不同情境下信守和违背承诺的效果。它将审查他们在同伴关系中的潜在有益作用，以及他们提高儿童证词质量的倾向。信守承诺可能适合于培养友谊，但当保密的信息涉及虐待儿童时，可能会产生严重的后果。从这项研究的信息，预计将有助于更积极的同伴关系和儿童的诚实披露成人的（如虐待儿童）和同龄人的（如欺凌）违法行为。

This research will lead to a better understanding of the effects of keeping and breaking promises in different contexts. It will examine their potential beneficial function in peer relationships and their propensity to increase the quality of children's testimony. Keeping promises may be appropriate for fostering friendships but may have serious consequences when the information that is kept secret involves child abuse, for example. Information from this research is expected to contribute to more positive peer relationships and to children's honest disclosures of adult's (e.g. child abuse) and peer's (e.g. bullying) transgressive conduct.