All Stories

  1. Lying to your doctor: Exploring age differences and techniques to foster honest patient-doctor communication

    Article • Journal of Health Psychology, February 2025, SAGE Publications

    Alison O'Connor

  2. Exploring the moral acceptability of older adults’ lies about their physical health, mental health, and medication adherence

    Article • Current Psychology, August 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alison O'Connor

  3. Implicit Bias: How Adults View Children's Honesty

    Article • Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, March 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Alison O'Connor, Alison O'Connor

  4. Younger and Older Adults’ Health Lies to Close Others

    Article • The Journals of Gerontology Series B, February 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Alison O'Connor

  5. Rating the Honesty of White and Black Children via Implicit and Explicit Measures: Implications for Child Victims in the Criminal Justice System

    Article • Child Maltreatment, April 2023, SAGE Publications

    Alison O'Connor

  6. Examining honesty–humility and cheating behaviors across younger and older adults

    Article • International Journal of Behavioral Development, September 2021, SAGE Publications

    Alison O'Connor

  7. Use of global trait cues helps to explain older adults’ decrements in detecting children’s lies

    Article • Legal and Criminological Psychology, July 2021, Wiley

    Alison O'Connor

  8. Can adults discriminate between fraudulent and legitimate e-mails? Examining the role of age and prior fraud experience

    Article • Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, May 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Alison O'Connor

  9. Dishonesty during a pandemic: The concealment of COVID-19 information

    Article • Journal of Health Psychology, August 2020, SAGE Publications

    Alison O'Connor

  10. Executive functions and young children’s lie-telling and lie maintenance.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, July 2020, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Alison O'Connor

  11. Younger and older adults’ prospective memory: the role of delay task difficulty

    Article • Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition, February 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Alison O'Connor

  12. Perceptions of older adult jurors: the influence of aging stereotypes and jury laws

    Article • Psychology Crime and Law, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Alison O'Connor

  13. Children who disclose a minor transgression often neglect disclosing secrecy and coaching

    Article • Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, May 2019, Elsevier

    Alison O'Connor

  14. Younger and older adults’ lie-detection and credibility judgments of children's coached reports

    Article • Psychology Crime and Law, March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Alison O'Connor

  15. The role of theory of mind and social skills in predicting children’s cheating

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, March 2019, Elsevier

    Alison O'Connor

  16. The effects of self- and other-awareness on Chinese children's truth-telling

    Article • British Journal of Developmental Psychology, December 2018, Wiley

    Alison O'Connor

  17. Adults’ perceptions of children’s referentially ambiguous responses

    Article • Psychology Crime and Law, November 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Alison O'Connor

  18. The relation between having siblings and children’s cheating and lie-telling behaviors

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, April 2018, Elsevier

    Alison O'Connor

  19. Mirror, mirror on the wall: Increasing young children’s honesty through inducing self-awareness

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, March 2018, Elsevier

    Alison O'Connor

  20. Verbalizing a commitment reduces cheating in young children

    Article • Social Development, May 2017, Wiley

    Alison O'Connor