haha well 🙃 "years in the making" aka "it is sometimes easier to produce babies than papers" 😇
great team effort funded by wellcome trust with my amazing collaborators Andreas Hula (who developed the computational trust model), Lucy Vanes @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social , Danae Kokorikou, Ian Goodyer, Peter Fonagy, Michael Moutoussis and Ray Dolan - very grateful
This study shows how our past may shape our ability to trust others, and is consisent with the view that trust is a powerful force in our social lives.
Andrea Reiter Those who trusted unconditionally in our experiment developed better peer relationships over time. This was especially the case for those who reported more family adversity #Resilience
Interestingly, the (self-reported) family enviornment /parenting they grew up with was linked to the development of trust in adolescence. Those who faced family adversity earlier in life showed a slower increase in trust during adolescence
As adolescents turned into adults, they trusted others more in our multriround trust game - both crosssectionally and longitudinally. Via a computational model for trust we also uncovered that this was because they became *less* socially risk averse as they grew older.