Trust and social reciprocity in adolescence - A matter of perspective-taking

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• 作者：Anne-Kathrin J. Fett ; Sukhi S. Shergill ; Paula M. Gromann ; Iroise Dumontheil ; Sarah-Jayne Blakemore ; Farah Yakub ; Lydia Krabbendam
• 关键词：Social cognition ; Perspective-taking ; Theory of mind ; Trust ; Decision making
• 刊名：Journal of Adolescence
• 出版年：February, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：37
• 期：2
• 页码：175-184
• 全文大小：366 K

文摘

Changes in social behaviour from childhood to adulthood have been suggested to be driven by an increased sensitivity to others' perspectives. Yet, the link between perspective-taking and social processes, such as trust and reciprocity, has rarely been investigated during adolescence. Using two trust games with a cooperative and an unfair counterpart and an online perspective-taking task with 50 adolescents, we show that those with a higher perspective-taking tendency demonstrate greater trust towards others and higher levels of trust during cooperative interactions. Both low and high perspective-takers adapted their levels of trust in response to unfair behaviour. However, high perspective-takers reduced their trust more drastically and showed more malevolent and less benevolent tit-for-tat when they were treated unfairly by their counterpart. The findings suggest that a higher perspective-taking tendency in adolescence is associated with specific mechanisms of trust and reciprocity, as opposed to undifferentiated increases in positive social behaviour towards others.