國(guó)家地理:我們?yōu)槭裁凑f(shuō)謊(4)

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When I was in third grade, one of my classmates brought a sheet of racing car stickers to school to show off. The stickers were dazzling. I wanted them so badly that I stayed back during gym class and transferred the sheet out of the classmate's backpack into mine. When the students returned, my heart was racing. Panicking that I would be found out, I thought up a preemptive lie. I told the teacher that two teenagers had shown up on a motorbike, entered the classroom, rifled through backpacks, and left with the stickers. As you might expect, this fib collapsed at the gentlest probing, and I reluctantly returned what I had pilfered.

我三年級(jí)時(shí)，一個(gè)同學(xué)帶來(lái)了一張賽車(chē)貼紙到學(xué)校里來(lái)炫耀。那些貼紙令人炫目，我實(shí)在太想要它們以至于趁著體育課留在教室，把貼紙從同學(xué)書(shū)包中偷出來(lái)，藏到了我的包里。當(dāng)同學(xué)們回來(lái)時(shí)，我的心怦怦亂跳。因?yàn)閾?dān)心我的行為會(huì)被揭發(fā)出來(lái)，我搶在大家發(fā)現(xiàn)前想了一個(gè)謊言。我告訴老師，兩個(gè)在摩托車(chē)上的少年沖進(jìn)了教室，洗劫了書(shū)包留下了這些貼紙。正如大家所想的，這個(gè)小謊言在溫和的查探中被戳穿，而我也不情愿地歸還了偷的東西。

My naive lying -- I got better, trust me -- was matched by my gullibility in sixth grade, when a friend told me that his family owned a flying capsule that could transport us anywhere in the world. Preparing to travel on this craft, I asked my parents if they could pack me a few meals for the journey. Even when my older brother snickered, I refused to disbelieve my friend's claim, and it was left to my friend's father to finally convince me that I'd been duped.

我天真的謊言符合我六年級(jí)時(shí)受騙的心態(tài)。相信我，我現(xiàn)在變得好多了。一個(gè)朋友告訴我說(shuō)他家有一個(gè)飛行艙可以載我們?nèi)ナ澜绺鞯?。為了?zhǔn)備這次飛船之旅，我問(wèn)父母是否能為我準(zhǔn)備一些食物，甚至當(dāng)我的哥哥在一旁竊笑時(shí)，我還不愿意去懷疑我朋友的話直到朋友的爸爸說(shuō)服我，我被騙了。

These lies that my friend and I told were nothing out of the ordinary for kids our age. Like learning to walk and talk, lying is something of a developmental milestone. While parents often find their children's lies troubling -- for they signal the beginning of a loss of innocence -- Kang Lee, a psychologist at the University of Toronto, sees the emergence of the behavior in toddlers as a reassuring sign that their cognitive growth is on track.

我和朋友說(shuō)的這些謊在那個(gè)年齡段的孩子身上沒(méi)什么特別。就像學(xué)習(xí)說(shuō)話和走路一樣，說(shuō)謊是一個(gè)發(fā)展式的里程碑。父母經(jīng)常為孩子的謊言感到不安，認(rèn)為謊言是喪失無(wú)辜純真的信號(hào)。多倫多大學(xué)的心理學(xué)家坎·李則認(rèn)為，幼兒說(shuō)謊行為的出現(xiàn)是令人放心的跡象，表明他們的認(rèn)知增長(zhǎng)正在進(jìn)行中。