However, based on previous research suggesting
that appeals to tell the truth may be qualified by expectations of punishment.
it was hypothesized that appeals to tell the truth would be less effective when there was expected punishment compared with conditions where there was no punishment expected.
Finally, based on Talwar and Lee (2011), who found that children from the corporal
punishment school were better able to maintain semantic leakage control when asked follow-up
questions about their transgression (i.e., peeking at a forbidden toy), we expected that children would
be better at maintaining their lie when there was an expectation of punishment compared with when
there was no expectation of punishment.