Rodney Tompkins presents poster at Society for Research in Child Development conference

"In this work with Dr. Liberman, we replicate and extend past research finding that people's moral evaluations of behaviors consider social relationships. That is, we found that children and adults judge that it is worse for someone to (i) fail to help and (ii) lie to a friend (compared to a stranger). But, children's and adults' evaluations were stronger for failing to help scenarios than lying scenarios, suggesting people's moral evaluations indeed hinge on social relationships as well as different forms of interpersonal harm."

Cheers, Rodney!