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Babies learn to deceive before they can talk, new study finds | Tactics used include denial, feigning deafness, and hiding things (www.the-independent.com)

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[–] rollin@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

haha yeah there are definitely gray areas! I was thinking of simpler cases, for instance you go into the kitchen where your 15 month has just run, and when they see you, they almost reflexively hide the item they've taken off the worktop behind their back.

This is what happened to me this week with my granddaughter, the item she'd taken was a banana so she wasn't about to get told off - not that I her granddad would ever tell her off for anything!

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

I don't think the situation you describe is any different. Do they understand that they're not allowed to have this thing regardless of whether they're seen or not? Or do they think that there's some arbitrary rule where they're allowed to have it only if they're not discovered? Do they even have a concept of what it means for something to be "allowed"?