This research examined the effectiveness of using norms to promote honesty. Participants were Han Chinese children (N = 568, 50.4% male, 3.24 to 6.00 years, collected 2020–2022). Relative to children in a control condition, children in Study 1 were more likely to confess to having cheated in a game after being presented with a descriptive norm indicating that confessions are typical, or an injunctive norm indicating that most other children approve of confessing. Study 2 showed that this finding was not due to a methodological artifact, and Study 3 replicated the effect in a context in which the norm information was conveyed by someone other than the experimenter. The findings suggest that messages about social norms can influence children's honesty.

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关于描述性和指令性规范的信息可以促进幼儿的诚实

这项研究检验了使用规范促进诚实的有效性。参与者为汉族儿童（N  = 568，50.4% 为男性，3.24 至 6.00 岁，2020-2022 年收集）。相对于控制条件下的儿童​​，研究 1 中的儿童在看到表明供述是典型的描述性规范或表明大多数其他儿童赞成供认的强制性规范后，更有可能承认在游戏中作弊。研究 2 表明这一发现不是由于方法论的伪影，而研究 3 在常模信息由实验者以外的其他人传达的环境中复制了这种效果。研究结果表明，有关社会规范的信息可以影响儿童的诚实度。