Study shows kids with better memories make better liars

  Study shows kids with better memories make better liars

دراسة تُبين أن ذكراة الأطفال الكذابين هي الأفضل ،كما تبين كذلك أنهم الأفضل في الخداعِ اللفظي أيضاً .
الأطفال الذين لديهم ذاكرة جيدة لديهم أكثر مهارة في الكذب ، حسب درسة جديدة قامتْ بها جامعة Sheffield في المملكة المتحدة .
نتائج هي الدراسة التي نشرتْ في مجلة علم نفس الطفل ، تُثبت أن الكذابين الجيدين يمتلكون مهراات ذاكرة لفظية أفضل ، على الرغمِ من الفرق الذي حصل بإختلاف الكذابين الجيدين و السيئين .
ووفقاً للباحثين ، يوحي هذا النمط أن الذاكرة اللفظية تلعبُ دوراً في التجهيز و التلاعب بأجزاء متعددة من المعلومات .

على الرغم من أن الصلات بين مهارات الذاكرة وخيانة الأمانة قد تكون مقلقة بالنسبة لبعض الآباء والأمهات - يظهرُ  البحث أيضا جانب مضيء محتمل  لأولئك الذين يبحثون عن رعاية الأطفال.

وقال أحد الباحثين المشاركين في المشروع Elena Hoicka منthe University of Sheffield’s Department of Psychology في بيان صحفي: "على الرغم من الآباء والأمهات عادة يتعصبون عندما يكذب أطفالهم، من دواعي سرورنا أن نكشف لهم أنه عندما تكون أكذوبة أطفالهم ملقاة بشكل جيد ، هذا يعني أن أبنائهم أصبحت لديهم قدرةأفضل في التفكير وذاكرة ذات  مهارات جيدة ".

The better the memory, the better the ‘verbal deception’ abilities.

Children who possess good memory skills are also more adept at telling lies, a new study by psychologists at the University of Sheffield in the UK has found.

The team asked a number of six- and seven-year-olds to play a simple game of trivia with them. The twist was that the kids were given a chance to sneak a peek at the answers on the back of the game cards when they thought no one was looking, but of course they were being filmed by hidden cameras the whole time.

With the researchers knowing exactly which of their young volunteers had cheated, the children were then questioned about the answers they’d given during the trivia game. This involved asking them about facts and information that could have only been obtained by peeking at the back of the cards, which allowed the researchers to measure the links between the kids’ working memory and verbal deception skills. The aim was to figure out what separates a good liar from a bad liar at an early age.

The researchers wanted to measure two different types of memory in their experiment: verbal working memory and visuo-spatial memory. Verbal working memory relates to the amount of words a person is able to remember at once, while visuo-spatial working memory is the number of images that can be recalled at the same time.

The results of the study, published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology demonstrate that good liars possess better verbal memory skills, although, from this research’s findings at least, there appears to be no difference between good and bad liars when it comes to visuo-spatial memory.

According to the researchers, this pattern suggests that “verbal working memory plays a role in processing and manipulating the multiple pieces of information involved in lie-telling”, whereas image recognition and recall abilities may be relatively unimportant when people are being creative with the truth.

Although the links between memory skills and dishonesty may be disconcerting for some parents - not to mention kids who now know we’re onto them - the research also indicates a potential silver lining for those looking after children.

One of the researchers involved with the project, Elena Hoicka from the University of Sheffield’s Department of Psychology, said in a press release: “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.”

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