Highlights•At around age five, young children show first signs of concern with
reputation.•Eight-year-old children begin to reason about reputation explicitly.•Children this …

Until recently, many psychologists were skeptical that young children cared about
reputation. New evidence suggests that by age five, children begin to understand the broad …

Scientific research on how children learn to tell lies has existed for more than a century.
Earlier studies mainly focused on moral, social, and situational factors contributing to the …

The motivation to build and maintain a positive personal reputation promotes prosocial
behavior. But individuals also identify with their groups, and so it is possible that the desire …

The field of moral identity research comprises two different views as to when moral identity
emerges in the course of development. While some describe moral identity as a …

The acquisition of virtue can be conceptualized as a self-regulatory process in which
deliberate practice results in increasingly higher levels of skillfulness in leading a virtuous …

This research presents a nudge-based approach to promoting honest behavior. Specifically,
we introduce the moral barrier hypothesis, which posits that moral violations can be inhibited …

Trust and honesty are essential for human interactions. Philosophers since antiquity have
long posited that they are causally linked. Evidence shows that honesty elicits trust from …

The seminal work in the modern study of children's moral development is Piaget's
(1932/1997) The Moral Judgment of the Child. As is well known, Piaget claimed that before …

Method Participants were 300 preschool children in eastern China: one hundred fifty 3-year-
olds (age range= 3.08 to 4.00 years, M= 3.62, SD= 0.27; 71 boys, 79 girls) and one hundred …