Are children poor liars? Do you think you can easily detect their lies? Developmental researcher Kang Lee studies what happens physiologically to children when they lie. They do it a lot, starting...
========== Hi.Let me ask the audience a question:Did you ever lie as a child?If you did, could you please
raise your hand?Wow! This is the most honest
group of people I've ever met.(Laughter)So for the last 20 years,I've been studying
how children learn to tell lies.And today, I'm going to share with yousome of the discoveries we have made.But to begin, I'm going to tell you
a story from Mr. Richard Messina,who is my friend and an elementary
school principal.He got a phone call one day.The caller says,"Mr. Messina, my son Johnny
will not come to school todaybecause he's sick."Mr. Messina asks,"Who am I speaking to, please?"And the caller says,"I am my father."(Laughter)So this stor...