When Is Truth Relevant?

Allison, Elizabeth; Fonagy, Peter

doi:10.1002/psaq.12074

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“…Camisasca et al, 2017;Giovanelli et al, 2020;Marchetti et al, 2020) and extending to subsequent, significant affective relationships (Bowlby, 1969(Bowlby, , 1973(Bowlby, , 1980. It has been suggested that children's decision to place trust in an unknown informant, especially in a context of uncertainty, may also depend on generalizing from their personal attachment history (Fonagy, 1998;Allison and Fonagy, 2016;Fonagy et al, 2019;see also, Bo et al, 2017;Luo et al, 2018). For example, securely attached children are more flexible in establishing trustful relationships with epistemically reliable strangers than children with a fragile relational past (see, for example, .…”

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Shall I Trust You? From Child–Robot Interaction to Trusting Relationships

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Studying trust in the context of human-robot interaction is of great importance given the increasing relevance and presence of robotic agents in the social sphere, including educational and clinical. We investigated the acquisition, loss, and restoration of trust when preschool and school-age children played with either a human or a humanoid robot in vivo. The relationship between trust and the representation of the quality of attachment relationships, Theory of Mind, and executive function skills was also investigated. Additionally, to outline children's beliefs about the mental competencies of the robot, we further evaluated the attribution of mental states to the interactive agent. In general, no substantial differences were found in children's trust in the play partner as a function of agency (human or robot). Nevertheless, 3-year-olds showed a trend toward trusting the human more than the robot, as opposed to 7-year-olds, who displayed the reverse pattern. These findings align with results showing that, for 3-and 7-yearolds, the cognitive ability to switch was significantly associated with trust restoration in the human and the robot, respectively. Additionally, supporting previous findings, we found a dichotomy between attributions of mental states to the human and robot and children's behavior: while attributing to the robot significantly lower mental states than the human, in the Trusting Game, children behaved in a similar way when they related to the human and the robot. Altogether, the results of this study highlight that similar psychological mechanisms are at play when children are to establish a novel trustful relationship with a human and robot partner. Furthermore, the findings shed light on the interplay-during development-between children's quality of attachment relationships and the development of a Theory of Mind, which act differently on trust dynamics as a function of the children's age as well as the interactive partner's nature (human vs. robot).

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“…Consider the recurrent thread. Allison and Fonagy () write, “Fortunately, the overvaluation of insight is behind us, and the importance of emotional truth (the felt truth of an experience) seems generally recognized as the key to therapeutic progress” (p. 283). They characterize truth as a mental process rather than mental representation, a process that engenders “epistemic trust,” such that patients can begin to use social input.…”

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Dwaihy

2017

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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This essay outlines novel ways of communicating with patients by altering semantics, syntax, word use, or sounds. Language is viewed as a tool for coping with problems rather than a medium with which to mirror external reality or internal human nature. This view of language emerges from a pragmatic critique of truth. The broader goal of this essay is to weave together the philosophy of pragmatism, especially as it has been articulated by Richard Rorty, with the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. Clinical case examples are discussed.

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“…So, any difference in outcome may just have been because of that reason, that is the patients felt safer and more nurtured which affected their representations of attachment relationships. One speculative explanation along these lines for this finding could be that the additional MBT‐based treatment fostered patients’ development of what has become known as ‘epistemic trust’, that is trust in the veracity of one's personal experience, which can be utilized therapeutically to enhance one's interpersonal skills and reduce vigilance and anxiety (Allison & Fonagy, ; Fonagy & Allison, ; Fonagy, Luyten, & Allison, ).…”

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Exploring the effectiveness of combined mentalization‐based group therapy and dialectical behaviour therapy for inpatients with borderline personality disorder – A pilot study

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Raaff

Dimaggio

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British J Clinic Psychol

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Clinical implications Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) can usefully be combined with mentalization-based treatment (MBT). The combination of DBT and MBT reduces self-harm more than DBT alone. DBT plus MBT may lead to a reduction in fearful attachment and improvement of affective mentalizing. Short-term combinations of evidence-based borderline treatments may enrich psychiatric inpatient care. Therefore, such approaches deserve further research. Limitations The treatment condition was therapeutically more intense than the control condition. The study lacked a follow-up assessment. The impact of comorbid conditions on treatment response was not taken into account. Adherence to the manualized approach was not measured.

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When Is Truth Relevant?

Cited by 40 publications

References 60 publications

Shall I Trust You? From Child–Robot Interaction to Trusting Relationships

Shall I Trust You? From Child–Robot Interaction to Trusting Relationships

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Exploring the effectiveness of combined mentalization‐based group therapy and dialectical behaviour therapy for inpatients with borderline personality disorder – A pilot study

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