To see a more current list of publications please visit Dr. Evans' Google Scholar Page. For additional access to journal articles please visit Dr. Evans' ResearchGate page!
Journal Articles * Identifies student author or co-author. Dykstra, V. W.*, Harvey, M. B., Bruer, K., Price, H. L., & Evans, A. D. (2021). To disclose or not to disclose? The influence of consistently disclosing and disclosure recipient on perceptions of children’s credibility. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
Evans, A. D., Dykstra, V. W.*, Bruer, K, & Price, H. L. (2021). Lying to conceal a group transgression in middle to late childhood. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 67, 75-93. https://doi.org/10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.67.1.0075
O’Connor, A. M*.,& Evans, A. D. (2020). Dishonesty during a pandemic: The concealment of COVID-19 information. Journal of Health Psychology. doi: 10.1177/1359105320951603
O’Connor, A. M*.,Judges, R. A., Lee, K., & Evans, A. D. (In Press). Can adults discriminate between fraudulent and legitimate emails? Examining the role of age and prior fraud experience. Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect. doi:10.1080/08946566.2021.193476 O'Connor, A. M*., & Evans, A. D. (2020). Perceptions of older adult jurors: The influence of aging stereotypes and jury laws. Psychology, Crime & Law, 26, 648-666. doi:10.1080/1068316X.2019.1708358 O'Connor, A. M*., Dykstra, V. W*., & Evans, A. D. (2020). Executive functions and young children's lie-telling and lie maintenance. Developmental Psychology, 56, 1278-1289. doi:10.1037/dev0000955 Dykstra, V. W.*, Willoughby, T., & Evans, A. D. (2020). Lying to friends: Examining lie-telling, friendship quality, and depressive symptoms over time during late childhood and adolescence. Journal of Adolescence, 84, 123-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2020.08.003
Dykstra, V. W.*, Willoughby, T., & Evans, A. D. (2020). A longitudinal investigation of the relation between lie-telling, secrecy, parent-child relationship quality, and depressive symptoms in late-childhood and adolescence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 49, 438-448. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-019-01183-z
Dykstra, V. W.*, Willoughby, T., & Evans, A. D. (2020). Perceptions of dishonesty: Understanding parents’ reports of and influence on children and adolescents’ lie-telling. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 49, 49-59.
O'Connor, A. M*., Lyon, T. D., & Evans, A. D. (2019). Younger and older adults' lie-detection and credibility judgments of children's coached reports. Psychology, Crime & Law, 25, 925-944. doi:10.1080/1068316X.2019.1597092 Ding, X. P., O'Connor, A. M*., Weng, M., Tang, Q., Fu, G., & Evans, A. D. (2019). The effects of self- and other-awareness on Chinese children's truth-telling. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 37, 323-335. doi: 10.1111/bjdp.12275
Evans, A. D., O'Connor, A. M*., Bruer, K. C., & Price, H. L. (2019). Children who disclose a transgression often neglect disclosing secrecy and coaching. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 62, 199-204. doi: 10.1016/j.appdev.2019.03.002
Ma, F., Wylie, B. E.*, Luo, X., He, Z., Jiang, R., Zhang, Y., Xu, F., & Evans, A. D. (2019). Apologies repair trust via perceived trustworthiness and negative emotions. Frontiers in Psychology, 10: 758.doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00758
Wylie, B. E.*, Lyon, T. D., O’Connor, A. M., Laptskaia, C., & Evans, A. D. (2019). Adults’ perceptions of children’s referentially ambiguous responses. Psychology, Crime & Law, 25, 729-738. doi: 10.1080/1068316X.2018.1552757
O’Connor, A. M.*,& Evans, A. D. (2019). The role of theory-of-mind and social skills in predicting children’s cheating. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 179, 337-347. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2018.11.018
Ma, F., Wylie, B. E.*, Luo, X., He, Z., Hu, F., Evans, A. D. (2018). Apologies repair children's trust: The mediating role of emotions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 176, 1-12. doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2018.05.008
O'Connor, A. M*., & Evans, A. D. (2018). The relation between having siblings and children's cheating and lie-telling behaviours. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 168, 49-60. doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.12.006
Bender, J*., O'Connor, A. M*., & Evans, A. D. (2018). Mirror, Mirror on the wall: Increasing young children's honesty through inducing self-awareness. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 167, 414-422. doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.12.001
Evans, A. D., O’Connor, A. M*., & Lee, K. (2018). Verbalizing a commitment reduces cheating in young children. Social Development, 27, 87-94.doi: 10.1111/sode.12248
Evans, A. D., Stolzenberg, S.N., & Lyon, T. D. (2017) Pragmatic failure and referential ambiguity when attorneys ask child witnesses “Do you know/remember” questions. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 23, 191-199. doi:10.1037/law0000116
Roberts, K. P., Evans, A. D., & Duncanson, S. (2016). Binding an event to its source at encoding improves children's source monitoring. Developmental Psychology, 52, 2191-2201. doi:10.1037/dev0000213
Evans, A.D., Bender, J*., & Lee, K. (2016). Can parents detect 8- to 16-year-olds’ lies? Parental biases, confidence, and accuracy. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 147, 152-158. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2016.02.011
Farrell, A. H., Semplonius, T., Shapira, M., Zhou, X., Laurence, S., Willoughby, T., ... Evans, A. D. (2016). Research activity in Canadian developmental psychology programs. Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne, 57, 76-82. doi:10.1037/cap0000040
Ma, F., Evans, A.D., Liu, Y., Luo, X., & Xu, F. (2015). To lie or not to lie? The influence of parenting and theory-of-mind understanding on three-year-old children's honesty. Journal of Moral Education, 44, 198-212. doi:10.1080/03057240.2015.1023182
Evans, A. D., Stolzenberg, S. N., Lee, K., & Lyon, T. D. (2014). Young children's difficulty with indirect speech acts: Implications for questioning child witnesses. Behavioral Scienes & the Law, 11, 775-788. doi: 10.1002/bsl.2142[PDF available]
Lee, K., Talwar, V., McCarthy, A., Ross, I., Evans, A. D., & Arruda, C. (2014). Can classic moral stories promote honesty in children? Psychological Science, 25, 1630-1636. doi: 10.1177/0956797614536401 [PDF available]
Ding, X. P., Omrin, D. S., Evans, A. D., Fu, G., & Lee, K. (2014). Elementary school children’s cheating behavior and its cognitive correlates. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 121C, 85-95. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2013.12.005 [PDF available]
Evans, A. D., & Lee, K. (2014). The relation between 8- to 17- year-olds’ judgements of other’s honesty and their own past honest behaviors. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 38, 277-281. doi: 10.1177/0165025413517580[PDF available]
Lyon, T. D., & Evans, A. D. (2013). Young children’s understanding that promising guarantees performance: The effects of age and maltreatment. Law and Human Behavior, 10, doi: 10.1037/lhb0000061 [PDF available]
Xu, F., Evans, A.D., Li, C., Li, Q., Heyman, G., & Lee, K. (2013). The role of honesty and benevolence in children's judgments of trustworthiness.International Journal of Behavioral Development, 37, 257-265. doi: 10.1177/0165025413479861 [PDF available]
Brunet, M., Evans, A.D., Talwar, V., Bala, N., Lindsay, R.C.L., & Lee, K. (2013). How children report true and fabricated stressful and non-stressful events. Psychiatry, Psychology, & Law, 20, 867-881. doi: 10.1080/13218719.2012.750896[PDF available]
Evans, A. D., & Lee, K. (2013). Emergence of lying in very young children. Developmental Psychology. doi: 10.1037/a0031409 [PDF available]
Hu, X., Evans, A., Wu, H., Lee, K. & Fu, G. (2013). An interfering dot-probe task facilitates the detection of mock crime memory in a reaction time (RT)-based concealed information test. Acta Psychologica, 142, 278-285. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2012.12.006 [PDF available]
Fu, G., Evans, A. D., Xu, F., & Lee, K. (2012). Young children can tell strategic lies after committing a transgression. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 113, 145-158. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2012.04.003 [PDF available]
Evans, A. D., & Lyon, T. D. (2012). Assessing children’s competency to take the oath in court: The influence of question type on children’s accuracy. Law and Human Behavior, 35, 195-205. doi: 10.1037/h0093957 [PDF available]
Evans, A. D., Brunet, M., Talwar, V., Bala, N., Lindsay, R. C. L., & Lee, K. (2011). The effects of repetition on children’s true and false reports. Psychiatry, Psychology, & Law, 1-13. doi: 10.1080/13218719.2011.615808 [PDF available]
Moriguchi, Y., Evans, A. D., Hiraki, K., Itakura, S., & Lee, K. (2011). Cultural differences in the development of cognitive shifting: East-West comparison. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 111(2), 156-163. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2011.09.001 [PDF available]
Evans, A. D., & Lee, K. (2011). Verbal deception from late childhood to middle adolescence and its relation to executive functioning skills.Developmental Psychology, 47, 1108-1116. doi: 10.1037/a0023425 [PDF available]
Chiu Loke, I., Evans, A. D., & Lee, K. (2011). The neural correlates of prosocial-helping decisions: An event-related brain potentials study. Brain Research, 1369, 140-148. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.10.109 [PDF available]
Evans, A. D., Xu, F., & Lee, K. (2011). When all signs point to you: Lies told in the face of evidence. Developmental Psychology, 47, 39-49. doi: 10.1037/a0020787 [PDF available]
Li, A. S., Kelley, E. A., Evans, A. D., & Lee, K. (2011). Exploring the ability to deceive in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41, 185-195. doi: 10.1007/s10803-010-1045-4 [PDF available]
Evans, A. D., & Lee, K. (2010). Promising to tell the truth makes 8- to 16-year-olds more honest. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 28, 801-811. doi: 10.1002/bsl.960 [PDF available]
Bala, N., Evans, A. D., & Bala, E. (2010). Hearing the voices of children in the Canadian criminal justice system: Recognizing capacity and facilitating testimony. Child and Family Law Quarterly, 22, 21-45. [PDF available]
Evans, A. D., Roberts, K. P., Price, H., & Stefek, C. (2010). The use of paraphrasing in investigative interviews. Child Abuse & Neglect, 34, 585-592. [PDF available]
Evans, A. D., & Roberts, K. P. (2009). Can paraphrasing increase length, richness and accuracy of reports from young child witnesses? Psychology Crime and Law, 15, 531-548.
Evans, A. D., Lee, K., & Lyon, T., (2009). Complex questions asked by defense lawyers but not prosecutors predicts convictions in child abuse trials. Law and Human Behavior, 33, 258-264. [PDF available]
Fu, G., Evans, A. D., Wang, L., & Lee, K. (2008). Lying in the name of the collective good: A developmental study. Developmental Science, 11, 495-503. [PDF available ]
Book Chapters
Lee, K. & Evans, A. D. (in press). Morality, deception, and lying. In M. Killen, & J. Smetana (Eds.), Handbook of Moral Development.
Lee, K.& Evans, A. D. (2013). Becoming a moral relativist: Children’s moral conceptions of honesty and dishonesty in different social contexts. To appear in M. R. Banaji & S. A. Gelman (Eds.), Navigating the social world: What infants, children, and other species can teach us. New York: Oxford University
Evans, A.D., & Roberts, K.P. (2009). Children in an information society: The relations between source monitoring, mental-state understanding and knowledge acquisition in young children. In M. R. Kelley (Ed.), Applied Memory (pp. 235-252). Hauppage, NY: Nova Science Publishers
Roberts, K.P., & Evans, A.D. (2008). Protecting alleged victims of child abuse in adult-based judicial systems. In T. O’Neill & D. Zinga (Eds.). Children’s Rights: Theory, Policy, and Practice (pp. 195-215), Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press
Bala, N., & Evans, A. D. (2008). Courtroom procedures and questioning of child witnesses: Social science research and the judge. In N. Bala & J. Fagnan (Eds.), Child Witness Electronic Bench Book. National Judicial Institute. O’Connor, A. M*.,& Evans, A. D. (2020). Dishonesty during a pandemic: The concealment of COVID-19 information. Journal of Health Psychology. doi: 10.1177/1359105320951603
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