Monica Buta

Babeș-Bolyai University | UBB · Department of Psychology

Deception is a common phenomenon in everyday life, yet some people generally lie more than others and some people consider lying more acceptable than others do. Current knowledge about lie acceptability across development or about the individual differences in emotion or personality which shape it is still in an incipient stage. We aimed to expand...

This study investigated the effect of moral stories on children’s honesty during a temptation resistance paradigm in a large sample of 3 to 6-year-olds (N = 296). Both children and their parents were also asked to anticipate if a child vignette protagonist would confess to a minor misdeed and also to predict the consequences of this potential confe...

Purpose Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory systemic disease associated with various degrees of impairment across different cognitive domains. We aimed to provide a detailed computerized investigation of verbal and visuospatial short-term and working memory (dys)functions in RA patients, assessing both accuracy and response speed, w...

Background. A growing body of evidence shows that people’s attitudes toward lies could be predictive of their actual deceptive behavior. However, few studies have examined both attitudes and deceptive behavior, and none have related attitudes toward the likelihood of self-reported deception as it develops over people’s lifespans. Objective. Our stu...

Mathematics anxiety is widespread among children, interfering with their ability to solve math problems in academic and every-day situations. This has detrimental, long term effects on academic achievement, engagement in STEM-related careers and employability. While a number of apps and programs have been created to improve children’s mathematical...

The link between theory of mind and the deceptive abilities (verbal and behavioral) of school-aged children.

Capitolul analizează principalele caracteristici ce definesc minciuna pe parcursul dezvoltării, centrându‑se atât pe comportamentul simulant al copiilor, cât şi pe felul în care copiii înțeleg ce înseamnă şi se raportează la minciună. Sunt prezentate principalele tipuri de minciună, respectiv, minciunile antisociale şi prosociale, relevându‑se apar...

Acest capitol tratează noțiuni fundamentale despre funcționarea socială şi emoțională a copiilor pe parcursul dezvoltării lor, luând în considerare posibilele implicații pe care acestea le au pentru contextul judiciar. Capitolul este structurat în două secţiuni principale. Prima secțiune discută dezvoltarea emoțională a copiilor, prezentând particu...

Although tattling is a common practice among young children, there is little systematic research about its socioemotional correlates. The current study focused on children’s tattling between the ages of 5 and 7, assessing both their explicit attitudes toward tattling and their actual reporting of a transgression and relating them to individual diff...

Objectives: Current literature shows that emotional competence plays a role in the development of anxiety symptoms, yet there is little knowledge about the interplay between children's emotion comprehension and anxiety symptoms. Our study expands this knowledge by investigating anxiety symptoms in children ages 7 to 9 (N = 156) in connection with t...