Lying at a young age

I think that I may have posted the wrong article for Jen earlier. For some reason I had the lying-correlated-with-intelligence angle on my mind. Here's the intro to another article which provides details of research suggesting that kids learn to lie at a very young age.

Whether lying about raiding the biscuit tin or denying they broke a toy, all children try to mislead their parents at some time. Yet it now appears that babies learn to deceive from a far younger age than anyone previously suspected.

Behavioural experts have found that infants begin to lie from as young as six months. Simple fibs help to train them for more complex deceptions in later life.

Until now, psychologists had thought the developing brains were not capable of the difficult art of lying until four years old.