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Adults judge children who tell blunt polite truths more harshly than they do liars

  • Written by Laure Brimbal, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Texas State University
Adults judge children who tell blunt polite truths more harshly than they do liarsIn practice, adults don't always value truth above all else.Ashley Corbin-Teich/Image Source via Getty Images

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Despite the common lesson that it’s paramount to tell the truth, adults judged children who told blunt polite truths more negatively than they did liars in...

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