/newsroom/taxonomy/term/3821/all en /newsroom/channels/news/bystanders-cyberbullying-288182 <p>Your child is in elementary school and is begging you to buy them a cell phone, an iPod and iPad.  Anything, as long as they can communicate with their friends, either by texting or through social media.  As a parent, you’re worried about cyberbullying.  Indeed, up to 30% of children and adolescents admit to cyberbullying others, while 25% of students report being victimized on electronic platforms.  You rationalize that your child has lots of friends and that they will stand up for them in a bullying situation.  Do they?  What is the role of the bystander/friend during a bullying incident?</p> Wed, 25 Jul 2018 15:29:01 +0000 mona.noonoo@mail.mcgill.ca 62674 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/election-campaigns-dishonest-monkeys-why-were-hard-wired-lie-263605 <p>According to Ã山ǿ¼é's <strong>Victoria Talwar</strong>, there are two main categories of lies: deceptions that are motivated by self-interest and lies that are designed to benefit others. <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/from-election-campaigns-to-dishonest-monkeys-why-we-re-hard-wired-to-lie-1.3812243">CBC News</a></p> Fri, 21 Oct 2016 17:19:12 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 26308 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/truth-about-lying-childrens-perceptions-get-more-nuanced-age-263168 <p>Parents don’t like it when children lie. But what do the kids themselves think about it? New research suggests truth telling isn’t black and white.</p> <p>As children get older, their moral evaluations of both lies and truths is increasingly influenced by whether they think this behaviour will cause harm to either others or themselves.</p> Fri, 30 Sep 2016 16:41:32 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 26229 at /newsroom /newsroom/victoria-talwar Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 23314 at /newsroom