Abstract:Assessing the trustworthiness of others to learn who you can and cannot trust is important for social relationships. During early adolescence, the social environment becomes increasingly complex. The number and nature of one’s friendships may help to shape, and may be facilitated by, adequate trust behavior. In the current fMRI study, we investigated in 49 young adolescents (Mage=12.8, SDage=0.4, 18 boys) the ability to adapt trust behavior when interacting with an untrustworthy partner as well as the neural m… Show more
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