Trust in adolescence: Development, mechanisms and future directions
Trust is the glue of society. While the trust we place in close others is crucial for our wellbeing, trust in strangers is important to fulfill needs that families and friends cannot provide. Adolescence is an important phase for the development of trust in strangers, because the social world of ado...
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| author | Lydia Krabbendam Hester Sijtsma Eveline A. Crone Mariët van Buuren |
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| description | Trust is the glue of society. While the trust we place in close others is crucial for our wellbeing, trust in strangers is important to fulfill needs that families and friends cannot provide. Adolescence is an important phase for the development of trust in strangers, because the social world of adolescents expands tremendously. We provide an overview of the development of trust in adolescence by reviewing studies that used the trust game, an experimental paradigm to measure trust between dyads during monetary exchange. We start from the notion that trust is a form of social reinforcement learning in which prior beliefs about the trustworthiness of others are continuously updated by new information. Within this framework, development in adolescence is characterized by increasing uncertainty of prior beliefs, a greater tolerance of uncertainty, and a greater tendency to seek and use new information. Accordingly, there is evidence for an increase in initial trust and better adaptation of trust during repeated interactions. Childhood psychological and social-economic adversity may impact this development negatively. To further our understanding of these individual differences, we suggest ways in which the trust game can be enriched to capture trust dilemmas that are relevant to youth with diverse backgrounds. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-1b93b5f58bfa4e748e3fd9020b166db02025-08-20T01:55:21ZengElsevierDevelopmental Cognitive Neuroscience1878-92932024-10-016910142610.1016/j.dcn.2024.101426Trust in adolescence: Development, mechanisms and future directionsLydia Krabbendam0Hester Sijtsma1Eveline A. Crone2Mariët van Buuren3Department of Clinical, Neuro, and Developmental Psychology, Institute for Brain and Behavior Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Correspondence to: Department of Clinical, Neuro, and Developmental Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, van der Boechorststraat 7, Amsterdam 1081 BT, the NetherlandsDepartment of Clinical, Neuro, and Developmental Psychology, Institute for Brain and Behavior Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the NetherlandsErasmus School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the NetherlandsDepartment of Clinical, Neuro, and Developmental Psychology, Institute for Brain and Behavior Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the NetherlandsTrust is the glue of society. While the trust we place in close others is crucial for our wellbeing, trust in strangers is important to fulfill needs that families and friends cannot provide. Adolescence is an important phase for the development of trust in strangers, because the social world of adolescents expands tremendously. We provide an overview of the development of trust in adolescence by reviewing studies that used the trust game, an experimental paradigm to measure trust between dyads during monetary exchange. We start from the notion that trust is a form of social reinforcement learning in which prior beliefs about the trustworthiness of others are continuously updated by new information. Within this framework, development in adolescence is characterized by increasing uncertainty of prior beliefs, a greater tolerance of uncertainty, and a greater tendency to seek and use new information. Accordingly, there is evidence for an increase in initial trust and better adaptation of trust during repeated interactions. Childhood psychological and social-economic adversity may impact this development negatively. To further our understanding of these individual differences, we suggest ways in which the trust game can be enriched to capture trust dilemmas that are relevant to youth with diverse backgrounds.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929324000872TrustSocial reinforcement learningAdolescence |
| spellingShingle | Lydia Krabbendam Hester Sijtsma Eveline A. Crone Mariët van Buuren Trust in adolescence: Development, mechanisms and future directions Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Trust Social reinforcement learning Adolescence |
| title | Trust in adolescence: Development, mechanisms and future directions |
| title_full | Trust in adolescence: Development, mechanisms and future directions |
| title_fullStr | Trust in adolescence: Development, mechanisms and future directions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Trust in adolescence: Development, mechanisms and future directions |
| title_short | Trust in adolescence: Development, mechanisms and future directions |
| title_sort | trust in adolescence development mechanisms and future directions |
| topic | Trust Social reinforcement learning Adolescence |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929324000872 |
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