Don’t worry if your kids are massive liars: children who tell fibs could have better memories and thinking skills.
Researchers recruited 114 children aged 7 to 11, and allowed them to cheat at a trivia game and lie about it.
They did this by letting them sneakily look at an answer to a question – even if they were told not to.
Surprisingly enough, only one quarter of the kids actually went ahead and looked at the answer, unaware that they were being recorded by hidden cameras.
The children were then given verbal memory tests, and those who had… Read the full story