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How A Child's Gender May Affect Parents' Willingness To Bend The Truth

An experiment found that parents model honest behavior more with daughters than sons.
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An experiment found that parents model honest behavior more with daughters than sons.

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Shankar Vedantam is the host and creator of Hidden Brain. The Hidden Brain podcast receives more than three million downloads per week. The Hidden Brain radio show is distributed by NPR and featured on nearly 400 public radio stations around the United States.