To see if Chinese and Canadian children would rate truth telling and lie telling differently in pro-social and anti-social settings would be perceived the same in both cultures.
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What was Lee's research method?
Laboratory experiment, independent measures
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What was the IV in this study?
Whether the ppt hear the social or the physical story. Whether the ppt heard pro-social stories or anti-social stories (good/bad deed)
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What where the 4 conditions?
Pro-social truth telling/Pro-social lie telling/Anti-social truth telling/ Anti-social lie telling
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What where the DV's in this study?
The rating given to the story character's deed on 7 point scale (very,very good-Very.very naughty). The rating given to what the character said (verbal statement)
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Describe the Chinese sample
120 children, 40 7 years old, 40 9 years old, 40 11 years old. Equal split of males and females. All from Hangzhou (medium sized city)
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Describe the Canadian sample
108 children, 36 7 years old (20m, 16f), 40 9 year olds (24m, 16f), 32 11 year old (14m,18f) All from provincial capital.
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How were the children assigned and to what conditions?
60 Chinese to social story, 60 to physical. Canadian: 19 7 year old, 20 9 year olds, 17 11 year old were assigned to the social story others physical
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Describe the first part of a pro-social/Lie telling story
Here is Alex, Alex's class had to stay inside at recess because of bad weather so Alex decided to tidy up the classroom for his teacher. 1) Was what Alex did good/naughty?
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Describe the second part of a pro-social/ Lie telling story
So Alex cleaned the classroom and when the teacher returned after recess she said to her students: "Oh I see someone has cleaned the classroom for me" She asked Alex: "Did you know who did it?" Alex said: "I did not do it". question asked again
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Name one of the controls used in this study
Half of ppt read the story in the predetermined order other half in a randomised order (no order effects)
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Outline the results for pro-social/truth telling
children of both cultures rated the pro-social behaviours similarly. For the Canadian children, each age gave similar ratings to truth telling. Chinese children's ratings became less positive as age increased
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Outline the results for pro-social/lie telling
Overall, Canadian children rated lie telling in this situation negatively but as age increased their rating became somewhat less negative. Chinese children's ratings of lie telling changed from negative to positive as age increased.
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Outline the results for anit-social/truth telling
Children from both cultures rated truth telling in this situation very positively
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Outline the results for anit-social/lie telling
Both rated lie telling negatively in this condition. Overall, negative ratings increased with age in both cultures.
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Outline a another difference between Chinese children and Canadian
Chinese: 7 year old negatively than older children in the physical story condition. Canadian; 7 year olds rated lie telling less negatively than older children in the social condition.
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Outline one of Lee's conclusions
Specific social and cultural norms have an impact on children's developing moral judgements which in turn or modified by age and experience in a particular culture
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