Angela D Evans
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3801565 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Angela D Evans |
| NOMBRES | Angela D |
| APELLIDO | Evans |
| FIRMA | EVANS A D |
| AFILIACIONES | Brock University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3409-5979 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1987 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Other‐Oriented Lie‐Telling and Moral Evaluations During Adolescence
This study examined the longitudinal associations of adolescents’ lie‐telling and moral evaluations of other‐oriented lies told to friends, as well as the potential moderating roles of age and peer influence. Adolescents ( N = 818; 11–17 years at T1; M age = 13.30, 49.80% male) reported how often they told other‐oriented lies to their friends, their moral evaluations of other‐oriented lies, and their sensitivity to peer influence annually for 3 y…
I think they believed me
The current study examined the perceived believability of everyday lies told by adolescents, young adults, middle-aged adults, and older adults in relation to the speaker’s closeness to the lie-recipient. Participants (N = 275, ages 13 – 86) reported on their lie-telling behaviors three times a day across a 7-day period, providing details on their own perceived believability of the lies and subjective closeness to the lie-recipient. Linear mixed …
Does implying peer knowledge during an interview promote truthful disclosures from peer disclosure recipients and witnesses
We tested a novel implied peer knowledge paradigm in which both child witnesses and child recipients (children who previously received a disclosure from a witness) were able to infer, with varying degrees of saliency, the likelihood that an adult interviewer would hear about a negative transgression from a peer and adjust their disclosure strategy accordingly. We tracked children's disclosures (N = 418; aged 6-12 years; Mage = 8.91 years, SD = 1.…
Parents' approaches to conversations with their 5– to 18‐year‐olds about the 2024 US presidential election
Parents serve as primary agents of political socialization for their children. The present study examined how parents in the United States engaged in conversations with their children (5–18 years) about the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Using a nationally diverse sample of 1001 parents (reporting on 1769 children), we investigated the occurrence, frequency, and approach taken toward these discussions, and the factors that predicted them. The m…
Differences in daily lie-telling patterns from adolescence to older adulthood
Profiles of parent-reported family communication about the Covid-19 pandemic
This study examined family factors (i.e., parenting style and relationship quality) at the beginning of the pandemic that predicted profiles of family communication about COVID-19 6 months later, as well as communication profile differences in child well-being. Parents ( N = 1,025, 66% female, 33.8% male, 0.1% nonbinary) of children aged 5-17 years ( M child age = 11.03, SD = 3.38; 53.4% male children; 76.5% non-Hispanic White, 5.6% Black, 2.8% A…
Young children’s moral judgments of lying in the digital era
Exploring the moral acceptability of older adults’ lies about their physical health, mental health, and medication adherence
Encouraging honesty
Given the value placed on honesty and the negative consequences of lying, encouraging children's truth-telling is important. The present investigation assessed honesty promotion techniques for encouraging 3-8-year-old Canadian children's (Study 1: n = 301, 54% female; Study 2: n = 229, 50% female from predominantly White middle-class samples) disclosure of a transgression and whether they varied by age. Study 1 examined promising to tell the trut…
Older adults are more approving of blunt honesty than younger adults
A Latent Profile Analysis of Lie-Telling to Parents and Friends during Adolescence
A preference for the proximate occurrence
Examining honesty–humility and cheating behaviors across younger and older adults
Self-report research indicates that dishonesty decreases across adulthood; however, behavioral measures of dishonesty have yet to be examined across younger and older adults. The present study examined younger and older adults’ cheating behaviors in relation to their self-reported honesty–humility. Younger ( N = 112) and older adults ( N = 85) completed a matrix task where they had the opportunity to falsely inflate their performance. Participant…
The impact of Covid-19 on Canadian child maltreatment workers
Dishonesty during a pandemic
Honest disclosures of COVID-19 behaviors and symptoms is critical. A sample of adults on MTurk ( N = 451, 20-82 years of age) were asked if they have concealed social distancing practices, COVID-19 symptoms, and quarantine instructions, as well as how they evaluated others' COVID-19 concealment. Those who believed they had contracted COVID-19 engaged in greater rates of concealment and evaluated concealment more positively compared to those witho…
Children’s accuracy in answering Why and How Come questions
Children’s developing understanding of language may influence their ability to accurately respond to questions inquiring about their event knowledge (i.e., Why and How Come questions), potentially creating misinterpretations in adult–child communication. The present study examined 120 5-, 7-, and 9-year-old’s accuracy in responding to Why and How Come questions about the cause of their behaviors. Children’s accuracy improved with age, highlightin…
Don’t know responding in young maltreated children
OBJECTIVE: Two studies examined 4-7-year-old maltreated children's "I don't know" (IDK) responses to wh- questions after receiving various interview instructions. HYPOTHESES: We predicted (H1) children would be less inclined to give IDK responses and more inclined to guess to color/number questions compared to other wh- questions; (H2) IDK instructions would increase children's IDK responding compared to no instructions, with an increase in accur…
Transmission of children’s disclosures of a transgression from peers to adults
Peers are common recipients of disclosures about negative events, but the transmission of peer disclosures to adults is not well understood. We explored children’s (N = 352; aged 6–11 years) disclosures of a negative event to peer and adult interviewers. Some children witnessed an adult transgression and were asked to keep the transgression a secret (witnesses). Some of these witnesses (peer-interviewed witnesses) were then interviewed by peer wh…
The Impact of Covid-19 on Social Work Practice in Canada
Social workers involved in child maltreatment investigations faced considerable challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. Interactions with children and families carried new restrictions and risks, which resulted in changes in practice. We conducted a two-phase, mixed-methods study which examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social workers who work with maltreated children from both urban and rural areas across Canada. More specifically,…
Lying to friends
INTRODUCTION: Lie-telling appears to peak during adolescence; however, previous research has not yet examined lie-telling frequency in adolescents' friendships. Increased lie-telling may be problematic given that honesty is crucial for trust within positive relationships, and more positive relationships lead to more positive well-being. The present study examined adolescents' lies to friends and longitudinal associations between lying, friendship…
Perceptions of Dishonesty
A Longitudinal Examination of the Relation Between Lie-Telling, Secrecy, Parent–Child Relationship Quality, and Depressive Symptoms in Late-Childhood and Adolescence
Executive functions and young children’s lie-telling and lie maintenance
The current study is the first to provide a comprehensive examination of the activation-decision-construction model (Walczyk, Roper, Seemann, & Humphrey, 2003, 2009) in relation to young children's lie-telling and lie maintenance. Young children (3 to 4 years of age, N = 93) completed the temptation-resistance paradigm to elicit a transgression (peeking at a forbidden toy). Children were asked if they peeked at the toy (initial lie) and what they…
Verbalizing a commitment reduces cheating in young children
Children are frequently given rules and permissions that contrast their self‐interest, resulting in cheating behavior. The present study examined whether a verbalized commitment without the word ‘promise’ could reduce cheating rates in young children and whether this technique would be significantly more effective than a simple affirmation to a request not to cheat. Ninety‐nine 3‐to‐5‐year‐olds were randomly assigned to one of three obligation co…
Pragmatic failure and referential ambiguity when attorneys ask child witnesses “do you know/remember” questions
Do you know" and "Do you remember" (DYK/R) questions explicitly ask whether one knows or remembers some information while implicitly asking for that information. This study examined how 104 4- to 9-year-old children testifying in child sexual abuse cases responded to DYK/R wh- and yes/no questions. When asked DYK/R questions containing an implicit wh- question requesting information, children often provided unelaborated "Yes" responses. Attorneys…
Emergence of lying in very young children
Lying is a pervasive human behavior. Evidence to date suggests that from the age of 42 months onward, children become increasingly capable of telling lies in various social situations. However, there is limited experimental evidence regarding whether very young children will tell lies spontaneously. The present study investigated the emergence of lying in very young children. Sixty-five 2- to 3-year-olds were asked not to peek at a toy when the e…
When all signs point to you
Young children's ability to tell a strategic lie by making it consistent with the physical evidence of their transgression was investigated along with the sociocognitive correlates of such lie-telling behaviors. In Experiment 1, 247 Chinese children between 3 and 5 years of age (126 boys) were left alone in a room and asked not to lift a cup to see the contents. If children lifted up the cup, the contents would be spilled and evidence of their tr…
Dishonesty during a pandemic
Honest disclosures of COVID-19 behaviors and symptoms is critical. A sample of adults on MTurk ( N = 451, 20-82 years of age) were asked if they have concealed social distancing practices, COVID-19 symptoms, and quarantine instructions, as well as how they evaluated others' COVID-19 concealment. Those who believed they had contracted COVID-19 engaged in greater rates of concealment and evaluated concealment more positively compared to those witho…
Verbal deception from late childhood to middle adolescence and its relation to executive functioning skills
The present investigation examined 8- to 16-year-olds' tendency to lie, the sophistication of their lies, and related cognitive factors. Participants were left alone and asked not to look at the answers to a test, but the majority peeked. The researcher then asked a series of questions to examine whether the participants would lie about their cheating and, if they did lie, evaluate the sophistication of their lies. Additionally, participants comp…
A Longitudinal Examination of the Relation Between Lie-Telling, Secrecy, Parent–Child Relationship Quality, and Depressive Symptoms in Late-Childhood and Adolescence
Executive functions and young children’s lie-telling and lie maintenance
The current study is the first to provide a comprehensive examination of the activation-decision-construction model (Walczyk, Roper, Seemann, & Humphrey, 2003, 2009) in relation to young children's lie-telling and lie maintenance. Young children (3 to 4 years of age, N = 93) completed the temptation-resistance paradigm to elicit a transgression (peeking at a forbidden toy). Children were asked if they peeked at the toy (initial lie) and what they…
Strange Bedfellows
Most deaf children lack mundane knowledge of the world because of language deprivation and, sometimes, social isolation. Most of these children acquire language late and, therefore, remain longer in the Unwelt (the world of stimuli and physical objects) along with non-symboling animals. This ethnographic study of a State School for the Deaf (SSD) presents a picture of a relatively closed linguistic community and its limited fund of knowledge. Wit…
Encouraging honesty
Given the value placed on honesty and the negative consequences of lying, encouraging children's truth-telling is important. The present investigation assessed honesty promotion techniques for encouraging 3-8-year-old Canadian children's (Study 1: n = 301, 54% female; Study 2: n = 229, 50% female from predominantly White middle-class samples) disclosure of a transgression and whether they varied by age. Study 1 examined promising to tell the trut…
The impact of Covid-19 on Canadian child maltreatment workers
The Impact of Covid-19 on Social Work Practice in Canada
Social workers involved in child maltreatment investigations faced considerable challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. Interactions with children and families carried new restrictions and risks, which resulted in changes in practice. We conducted a two-phase, mixed-methods study which examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social workers who work with maltreated children from both urban and rural areas across Canada. More specifically,…
Verbalizing a commitment reduces cheating in young children
Children are frequently given rules and permissions that contrast their self‐interest, resulting in cheating behavior. The present study examined whether a verbalized commitment without the word ‘promise’ could reduce cheating rates in young children and whether this technique would be significantly more effective than a simple affirmation to a request not to cheat. Ninety‐nine 3‐to‐5‐year‐olds were randomly assigned to one of three obligation co…
Pragmatic failure and referential ambiguity when attorneys ask child witnesses “do you know/remember” questions
Do you know" and "Do you remember" (DYK/R) questions explicitly ask whether one knows or remembers some information while implicitly asking for that information. This study examined how 104 4- to 9-year-old children testifying in child sexual abuse cases responded to DYK/R wh- and yes/no questions. When asked DYK/R questions containing an implicit wh- question requesting information, children often provided unelaborated "Yes" responses. Attorneys…
Learning to be Deaf
Learning to be Deaf
Strange Bedfellows
Most deaf children lack mundane knowledge of the world because of language deprivation and, sometimes, social isolation. Most of these children acquire language late and, therefore, remain longer in the Unwelt (the world of stimuli and physical objects) along with non-symboling animals. This ethnographic study of a State School for the Deaf (SSD) presents a picture of a relatively closed linguistic community and its limited fund of knowledge. Wit…
Getting involved means making a difference?’ Insider views on the impact of a ‘healthy living’ community intervention
Addressing inequalities in health has featured strongly in UK health care policy over recent years, and efforts to consider inequalities at ‘ground level’ are increasingly evident. This includes enhancing primary care and other community-based services and emphasising consultation at community levels. The Healthy Living Approach to community development in Pembrokeshire, West Wales, was initiated and evaluated as part of the Welsh Assembly Govern…
P69 How to stop drug users dying from an overdose
Objective To describe interventions to prevent and treat overdoses in the pre-hospital setting and review their effectiveness. Design This review was undertaken in three stages: 1: systematic overview—systematic literature search for all reports of interventions to treat and prevent overdose in the pre-hospital setting; 2: systematic review—we selected comparative studies from the overview results and undertook qualitative synthesis; 3: we identi…
P70 How can patients and carers be involved in research to improve care? Developing and evaluating a model of involvement
Objective To develop and evaluate a model to involve service users in researching impact of policy. Design (a) a participative approach to develop an involvement model; (b) semi-structured interviews with service users (n=10) and researchers (n=2) to evaluate at 18 months. Setting This project took place across Wales. Research was commissioned to assess impact of the new Chronic Conditions Management (CCM) policy. We wanted service users' knowled…
Verbal deception from late childhood to middle adolescence and its relation to executive functioning skills
The present investigation examined 8- to 16-year-olds' tendency to lie, the sophistication of their lies, and related cognitive factors. Participants were left alone and asked not to look at the answers to a test, but the majority peeked. The researcher then asked a series of questions to examine whether the participants would lie about their cheating and, if they did lie, evaluate the sophistication of their lies. Additionally, participants comp…
When all signs point to you
Young children's ability to tell a strategic lie by making it consistent with the physical evidence of their transgression was investigated along with the sociocognitive correlates of such lie-telling behaviors. In Experiment 1, 247 Chinese children between 3 and 5 years of age (126 boys) were left alone in a room and asked not to lift a cup to see the contents. If children lifted up the cup, the contents would be spilled and evidence of their tr…
Emergence of lying in very young children
Lying is a pervasive human behavior. Evidence to date suggests that from the age of 42 months onward, children become increasingly capable of telling lies in various social situations. However, there is limited experimental evidence regarding whether very young children will tell lies spontaneously. The present study investigated the emergence of lying in very young children. Sixty-five 2- to 3-year-olds were asked not to peek at a toy when the e…
Binding an event to its source at encoding improves children’s source monitoring
Children learn information from a variety of sources and often remember the content but forget the source. Whereas the majority of research has focused on retrieval mechanisms for such difficulties, the present investigation examines whether the way in which sources are encoded influences future source monitoring. In Study 1, 86 children aged 3 to 8 years participated in 2 photography sessions on different days. Children were randomly assigned to…
Verbalizing a commitment reduces cheating in young children
Children are frequently given rules and permissions that contrast their self‐interest, resulting in cheating behavior. The present study examined whether a verbalized commitment without the word ‘promise’ could reduce cheating rates in young children and whether this technique would be significantly more effective than a simple affirmation to a request not to cheat. Ninety‐nine 3‐to‐5‐year‐olds were randomly assigned to one of three obligation co…
Pragmatic failure and referential ambiguity when attorneys ask child witnesses “do you know/remember” questions
Do you know" and "Do you remember" (DYK/R) questions explicitly ask whether one knows or remembers some information while implicitly asking for that information. This study examined how 104 4- to 9-year-old children testifying in child sexual abuse cases responded to DYK/R wh- and yes/no questions. When asked DYK/R questions containing an implicit wh- question requesting information, children often provided unelaborated "Yes" responses. Attorneys…
Lying to friends
INTRODUCTION: Lie-telling appears to peak during adolescence; however, previous research has not yet examined lie-telling frequency in adolescents' friendships. Increased lie-telling may be problematic given that honesty is crucial for trust within positive relationships, and more positive relationships lead to more positive well-being. The present study examined adolescents' lies to friends and longitudinal associations between lying, friendship…
Perceptions of Dishonesty
A Longitudinal Examination of the Relation Between Lie-Telling, Secrecy, Parent–Child Relationship Quality, and Depressive Symptoms in Late-Childhood and Adolescence
Executive functions and young children’s lie-telling and lie maintenance
The current study is the first to provide a comprehensive examination of the activation-decision-construction model (Walczyk, Roper, Seemann, & Humphrey, 2003, 2009) in relation to young children's lie-telling and lie maintenance. Young children (3 to 4 years of age, N = 93) completed the temptation-resistance paradigm to elicit a transgression (peeking at a forbidden toy). Children were asked if they peeked at the toy (initial lie) and what they…
Children’s accuracy in answering Why and How Come questions
Children’s developing understanding of language may influence their ability to accurately respond to questions inquiring about their event knowledge (i.e., Why and How Come questions), potentially creating misinterpretations in adult–child communication. The present study examined 120 5-, 7-, and 9-year-old’s accuracy in responding to Why and How Come questions about the cause of their behaviors. Children’s accuracy improved with age, highlightin…
Don’t know responding in young maltreated children
OBJECTIVE: Two studies examined 4-7-year-old maltreated children's "I don't know" (IDK) responses to wh- questions after receiving various interview instructions. HYPOTHESES: We predicted (H1) children would be less inclined to give IDK responses and more inclined to guess to color/number questions compared to other wh- questions; (H2) IDK instructions would increase children's IDK responding compared to no instructions, with an increase in accur…
Transmission of children’s disclosures of a transgression from peers to adults
Peers are common recipients of disclosures about negative events, but the transmission of peer disclosures to adults is not well understood. We explored children’s (N = 352; aged 6–11 years) disclosures of a negative event to peer and adult interviewers. Some children witnessed an adult transgression and were asked to keep the transgression a secret (witnesses). Some of these witnesses (peer-interviewed witnesses) were then interviewed by peer wh…
The Impact of Covid-19 on Social Work Practice in Canada
Social workers involved in child maltreatment investigations faced considerable challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. Interactions with children and families carried new restrictions and risks, which resulted in changes in practice. We conducted a two-phase, mixed-methods study which examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social workers who work with maltreated children from both urban and rural areas across Canada. More specifically,…
Examining honesty–humility and cheating behaviors across younger and older adults
Self-report research indicates that dishonesty decreases across adulthood; however, behavioral measures of dishonesty have yet to be examined across younger and older adults. The present study examined younger and older adults’ cheating behaviors in relation to their self-reported honesty–humility. Younger ( N = 112) and older adults ( N = 85) completed a matrix task where they had the opportunity to falsely inflate their performance. Participant…
The impact of Covid-19 on Canadian child maltreatment workers
Dishonesty during a pandemic
Honest disclosures of COVID-19 behaviors and symptoms is critical. A sample of adults on MTurk ( N = 451, 20-82 years of age) were asked if they have concealed social distancing practices, COVID-19 symptoms, and quarantine instructions, as well as how they evaluated others' COVID-19 concealment. Those who believed they had contracted COVID-19 engaged in greater rates of concealment and evaluated concealment more positively compared to those witho…
Older adults are more approving of blunt honesty than younger adults
A Latent Profile Analysis of Lie-Telling to Parents and Friends during Adolescence
A preference for the proximate occurrence
Psychology (27 obras) · Developmental psychology (18 obras) · Social Psychology (16 obras) · Deception detection and forensic psychology (14 obras) · Social Psychology (12 obras) · Medicine (11 obras) · Child and Animal Learning Development (10 obras) · Memory Processes and Influences (7 obras) · Psychiatry (7 obras) · Child Abuse and Trauma (6 obras)