Study shows babies can grasp art of deception even before their first birthday

The researchers asked the parents of more than 750 children aged between 0 and 47 months from the UK, US, Australia and Canada a range of questions about their child’s deception development.

Some respondents reported their child first recognised the concept as early as aged 8 months. Deception activity was also found to be frequent. Once their child got started, the study showed that half of children reported as deceivers had done something sneaky in the last day.

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