儿童白谎的研究回顾

Review on the Study of Children's White Lie

白谎,也称善意的谎言,属于一种亲社会谎言。它也被认为是一种既违反又维护人际交流基本原则的社会行为。儿童白谎为探讨儿童如何在与他人交流并建立社会关系中学习社会技能提供了一个新的研究视角。目前有关儿童白谎的相关研究主要集中于儿童白谎的发展和影响因素两大方面,前者涉及儿童对白谎的道德评价、白谎动机以及白谎行为研究的发展趋势和特点等;后者主要涉及白谎与错误信念、情绪理解、自我控制、道德认知等的关系。未来有关儿童白谎的进一步研究应从研究方法、研究内容以及研究目的等各方面入手,关注儿童白谎的完整研究体系的建立,同时也要拓展研究范围。

White lie,contrasted to malicious lie,belongs to pro-social lie. As a social behavior,it violates and upholds the basic rules of interpersonal communication. White lie-telling in children provides a window for us to understand the process by which children learn necessary social skills to interact with others and form social relations. The current research of children＇s white lie focus on two major aspects： one is the developmental study on children＇s white lie, which includes the development of white-tie behavior, white-lie motivation, white-lie moral evaluation and concept understanding;The other is the research of the influencing factors of white lie which include false belief,emotion understanding,self controlling,moral cognition and empathy. Future studies should focus on establishing a research system of children＇s white lie according to the following aspects： methods of research, contents of research, and purposes of research. And it is also important to extend the field of study on the children＇s white lie.