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Lee (1997): developmental
Background
Honesty will conflict with other moral values and this will be different depending on the culture. There might be a cultural difference in moral thinking.
Aims
The study aimed to see if Chinese children and Canadian children would rate truth telling and lie telling differently in pro-social settings.
Sample
Random sampling. 120 Chinese children. 40- 7,9 & 11 year olds. even gender split. 108 Canadian children. 36- 7, 32- 11, 40- . uneven gender split
Method
Lab experiment
Design
Independent meausres
Conditions
Prosocial behaviour- truth and lie. Antisocial behaviour- truth and lie
Variables
IV: whether the participant heard the social or physical story/ good or bad deed
DV: the rating given to the deed/ what was said
Procedure
Randomly assigned to either social or physical story. Children were tested individually. Each child listened to all four social or all four physical stories. The meaning of the rating scales were repeated to make sure that the children knew what to do. Counterbalancing was used for each condition.
Results
No significant differences between the order of the stories and gender, so these were ignored so the data was analysed in terms of the difference between cultures and type of story vey good 3 to -3 vey bad. The higher the score, the more the child approved of the action.
The Chinese children began to see lie telling in a positive light and gave it a higher rating than truth telling in the good deed situations. The Canadian children showed the western moral thinking of disapproving of all lie telling in every scenario. Both cultures approved of truth telling situations.
Concluisions
Moral development in different cultures is different as a result of social cultural norms and not the result of cognitive development.