Parents are more willing to lie in front of boys than girls

Quoted: “Parents didn’t want to role model dishonest behavior to girls,” said co-author Anya Savikhin Samek, an economist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “Maybe that’s because dishonest behavior is considered more socially acceptable for boys… It’s not a causal relationship, but the gender finding gives us something to think about how societies form and about the origins of dishonesty.”