Contribution to Book
16. Child witnesses and imagination: Lying, hypothetical reasoning, and referential ambiguity.
The Oxford handbook of the development of imagination
(2013)
Abstract
Children's resistance to unpleasant hypotheticals undermines their apparent understanding of the truth and lies. Better understanding of children's developmental limitations, improved questioning, and objections to developmentally insensitive questions could improve children's performance.
Keywords
- child abuse,
- child witness,
- hypothetical reasoning,
- referential ambiguity,
- child neglect
Disciplines
Publication Date
August, 2013
Citation Information
Lyon, T. D. (2013). Child witnesses and imagination: Lying, hypothetical reasoning, and referential ambiguity. In M. Taylor (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of the development of imagination (pp. 126-136). New York, NY: Oxford.