Angela M Crossman
Biographic Data
| ID | 6282198 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angela M Crossman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angela M |
| FAMILY NAME | Crossman |
| SIGNATURE | CROSSMAN A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Jay College of Criminal Justice |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7430-8225 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Revised Socialization of Lying Questionnaire: A reflection of parent moral identity
The current study provides a validated, revised Socialization of Lying Questionnaire (Revised-SoL) and assesses how parent socialization of lying relates to parents' moral identity more broadly. Four factors were empirically validated: (1) the direct socialization of honesty; (2) indirect socialization via parents' modeling of lying behavior; (3) parents' discipline of lying and reinforcement of honesty; and (4) parents' perceptions of their chil…
Inconvenient truth-tellers: Perceptions of children’s blunt honesty
Adults deliver mixed messages to children about the acceptability of truth- and lie-telling across contexts. To probe this discrepancy, we investigated how adults evaluate children's truths and lies across various situations. Participants watched videos of children telling prosocial lies or hurtful truths that varied in their directness (blunt or subtle) and whether they were polite in nature or protective. They then provided impressions of each …
The role of rapport in eliciting children’s truthful reports
Children (N = 114, ages 7–13) witnessed a transgressor steal money from a wallet and then asked them to lie about the theft when interviewed by a novel interviewer. During the interview, children were asked to either describe various experienced events (Narrative Practice Rapport-building condition) or participate in an interactive activity designed to focus on the relational aspects of rapport-building including mutual attentiveness, positivity,…
The effectiveness of cognitive instructions when children provide true and false eyewitness reports of another’s transgression
Children’s non-disclosures of another’s wrongdoing, particularly in cases involving alleged maltreatment, is a notable concern among forensic professionals. The current study was designed to provide these professionals with much needed information about the efficacy of a range of interviewing strategies, namely free-recall, cognitive instructions and closed-ended questions, when children are asked to conceal the transgression of an adult. After b…
Socialization of lying scale: Development and validation of a parent measure of socialization of truth and lie-telling behavior
This study focused on the development of the Socialization of Lying scale for which exploratory factor analysis demonstrated four empirically interpretable subscales: Parents’ Values and Direct Socialization about Honesty, Encouragement and Modeling of Lying, Consequences for Lying, and The Child’s Problematic Lying. These emergent factors suggest that parents teach and give messages about honesty in explicit and implicit ways that may map onto t…
Sext Dissemination: Differences across Nations in Motivations and Associations
Sext dissemination presents policy and legislative challenges given its potential psychological, social, and legal harms. We report on a cross-national comparison of sext-image dissemination in a large sample of 1148 young adults aged 18-29 years (M = 22.54, SD = 2.50, 53.0% women, 47.0% men), either U.S. (53.8%) or Australian (46.2%) residents. The results indicate that 14% of young adults disseminated sexts, with no difference by gender or coun…
Sharing is not always caring: Understanding motivations and behavioural associations with sext dissemination
The role of executive functioning and theory of mind in children’s lies for another and for themselves
Do As I Say and Not As I Think: Parent Socialisation of Lie‐Telling Behaviour
This study explored parent ( N = 146) perspectives about situations in which they think it is acceptable to lie, how this corresponds to how they socialise their children about lie‐telling and their children's actual behaviour. Results indicated the methods parents report using to teach their children about the acceptability of lie‐telling are consistent with what they report teaching their children about lie‐telling overall. Also, the frequency …
Children’s lies and their detection: Implications for child witness testimony
From little white lies to filthy liars
When frustration is repeated: Behavioral and emotion responses during extinction over time
Persistence of instrumental responding and negative facial expressions in response to repeated goal blockage was studied in 53 4-month-old infants. All participants experienced 2 sessions comprising baseline (no stimulation), contingency (stimulation resulting from infant action), and extinction (no stimulation) on consecutive days. Performance criteria identified 2 groups of infants, those who learned in Session 1 (Learning Group 1) and those wh…
Pants on Fire? Detecting Children's Lies
While there has been much research on adults' abilities to detect deception, there have been very few studies examining both children's and adults' abilities to detect children's real, spontaneous lies. The present study asked both children and adults to make judgments of children's true and false reports. Participants (N = 156) were shown videotaped sessions of children who were either spontaneously lying or telling the truth. Results indicate t…
“Are False Memories Permanent?”: An Investigation of the Long-Term Effects of Source Misattributions
With growing concerns over children's suggestibility and how it may impact their reliability as witnesses, there is increasing interest in determining the long-term effects of induced memories. The goal of the present research was to learn whether source misattributions found by Ceci, Huffman, Smith, and Loftus (1994) caused permanent memory alterations in the subjects tested. When 22 children from the original study were reinterviewed 2 years la…
“Are False Memories Permanent?”: An Investigation of the Long-Term Effects of Source Misattributions
With growing concerns over children's suggestibility and how it may impact their reliability as witnesses, there is increasing interest in determining the long-term effects of induced memories. The goal of the present research was to learn whether source misattributions found by Ceci, Huffman, Smith, and Loftus (1994) caused permanent memory alterations in the subjects tested. When 22 children from the original study were reinterviewed 2 years la…
When frustration is repeated: Behavioral and emotion responses during extinction over time
Persistence of instrumental responding and negative facial expressions in response to repeated goal blockage was studied in 53 4-month-old infants. All participants experienced 2 sessions comprising baseline (no stimulation), contingency (stimulation resulting from infant action), and extinction (no stimulation) on consecutive days. Performance criteria identified 2 groups of infants, those who learned in Session 1 (Learning Group 1) and those wh…
Pants on Fire? Detecting Children's Lies
While there has been much research on adults' abilities to detect deception, there have been very few studies examining both children's and adults' abilities to detect children's real, spontaneous lies. The present study asked both children and adults to make judgments of children's true and false reports. Participants (N = 156) were shown videotaped sessions of children who were either spontaneously lying or telling the truth. Results indicate t…
From little white lies to filthy liars
Children’s lies and their detection: Implications for child witness testimony
Do As I Say and Not As I Think: Parent Socialisation of Lie‐Telling Behaviour
This study explored parent ( N = 146) perspectives about situations in which they think it is acceptable to lie, how this corresponds to how they socialise their children about lie‐telling and their children's actual behaviour. Results indicated the methods parents report using to teach their children about the acceptability of lie‐telling are consistent with what they report teaching their children about lie‐telling overall. Also, the frequency …
The role of executive functioning and theory of mind in children’s lies for another and for themselves
Sharing is not always caring: Understanding motivations and behavioural associations with sext dissemination
Sext Dissemination: Differences across Nations in Motivations and Associations
Sext dissemination presents policy and legislative challenges given its potential psychological, social, and legal harms. We report on a cross-national comparison of sext-image dissemination in a large sample of 1148 young adults aged 18-29 years (M = 22.54, SD = 2.50, 53.0% women, 47.0% men), either U.S. (53.8%) or Australian (46.2%) residents. The results indicate that 14% of young adults disseminated sexts, with no difference by gender or coun…
The effectiveness of cognitive instructions when children provide true and false eyewitness reports of another’s transgression
Children’s non-disclosures of another’s wrongdoing, particularly in cases involving alleged maltreatment, is a notable concern among forensic professionals. The current study was designed to provide these professionals with much needed information about the efficacy of a range of interviewing strategies, namely free-recall, cognitive instructions and closed-ended questions, when children are asked to conceal the transgression of an adult. After b…
Socialization of lying scale: Development and validation of a parent measure of socialization of truth and lie-telling behavior
This study focused on the development of the Socialization of Lying scale for which exploratory factor analysis demonstrated four empirically interpretable subscales: Parents’ Values and Direct Socialization about Honesty, Encouragement and Modeling of Lying, Consequences for Lying, and The Child’s Problematic Lying. These emergent factors suggest that parents teach and give messages about honesty in explicit and implicit ways that may map onto t…
Inconvenient truth-tellers: Perceptions of children’s blunt honesty
Adults deliver mixed messages to children about the acceptability of truth- and lie-telling across contexts. To probe this discrepancy, we investigated how adults evaluate children's truths and lies across various situations. Participants watched videos of children telling prosocial lies or hurtful truths that varied in their directness (blunt or subtle) and whether they were polite in nature or protective. They then provided impressions of each …
The role of rapport in eliciting children’s truthful reports
Children (N = 114, ages 7–13) witnessed a transgressor steal money from a wallet and then asked them to lie about the theft when interviewed by a novel interviewer. During the interview, children were asked to either describe various experienced events (Narrative Practice Rapport-building condition) or participate in an interactive activity designed to focus on the relational aspects of rapport-building including mutual attentiveness, positivity,…
Revised Socialization of Lying Questionnaire: A reflection of parent moral identity
The current study provides a validated, revised Socialization of Lying Questionnaire (Revised-SoL) and assesses how parent socialization of lying relates to parents' moral identity more broadly. Four factors were empirically validated: (1) the direct socialization of honesty; (2) indirect socialization via parents' modeling of lying behavior; (3) parents' discipline of lying and reinforcement of honesty; and (4) parents' perceptions of their chil…
Psychology (14 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works) · Deception detection and forensic psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Lying (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Cognition (5 works) · Honesty (5 works) · Memory Processes and Influences (5 works) · Psychiatry (4 works)