Dear parents, here is something to be happy about if your kids are good in telling lies… it may mean they have a good verbal memory! Researchers from from the University of Sheffield have discovered that children who benefit from a good memory are much better at covering up their lies.
The experiment was conducted among 114 children, ages 6 and 7, from four British schools.
The study’s results showed that the good liars performed better in the verbal working memory test in both processing and recall.
Verbal working memory is the number of words a person can remember all at the same time.
Dr Elena Hoicka, from the University of Sheffield’s Department of Psychology, said: “While parents are usually not too proud when their kids lie, they can at least be pleased to discover that when their children are lying well, it means their children are becoming better at thinking and have good memory skills.”
Yep. I don’t think we can be proud when our kids lie. But they might have learned to lie from parents as well who loves to make excuses and white lies to cover up something.
Really, we can’t always blame our kids when they lie. Adults lie several times a day. At least, we now know their minds working quite well.
Read more about the research at www.sheffield.ac.uk
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