You are kindly invited to the seminar entitled as ”Exploring Parental Socialization of Honesty Using a Qualitative Approach” organized by the Department of Psychology.
Date: 22 December 2025, Monday
Time: 12:30
Venue: H-232
Title: ”Exploring Parental Socialization of Honesty Using a Qualitative Approach”
Speaker: İpek Işık, McGill University
Abstract:
Parents play a crucial role in shaping children’s honesty through both direct and indirect strategies. In this talk, I will share the findings of our diary study that explored how parents respond to their children’s truth-telling and lying over two weeks in everyday situations. These findings offer an in-depth understanding of how parents navigate (dis)honesty using a qualitative approach. Additionally, the study provides information on the frequency of lie-telling and truth-telling among children aged 3 to 10, the motivations for their lies, and the situations that lead them to be either honest or dishonest.
Biography:
İpek Işık is a PhD candidate in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where she also completed her Master of Arts in Educational Psychology with a focus in Human Development. Additionally, she holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a minor in Philosophy from Bilkent University. Her research focuses on how social-cognitive and parental factors influence children’s (dis)honest behaviour and their moral evaluations of (dis)honesty, using both qualitative and quantitative methods.