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Published on: July 10, 2017
Social information influences trust behaviour in adolescents
Nikki C Lee1, Jelle Jolles1, Lydia Krabbendam1
1Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Section of Educational Neuroscience and LEARN! Research Institute, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
Trust plays an integral role in daily interactions within adolescents' social environment. Using a trust game paradigm, this study investigated the modulating influence of social information about three interaction partners on trust behaviour in adolescents aged 12-18 (N = 845). After receiving information about their interaction partners prior to the task, participants were most likely to share with a 'good' partner and rate this partner as most trustworthy. Over the course of the task all interaction partners showed similar levels of trustworthy behaviour, but overall participants continued to trust and view the good partner as more trustworthy than 'bad' and 'neutral' partners throughout the game. However, with age the ability to overcome prior social information and adapt trust behaviour improved: middle and late adolescents showed a larger decrease in trust of the good partner than early adolescents, and late adolescents were more likely to reward trustworthy behaviour from the negative partner.
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