Children’s Interpersonal Trust

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Children’s Interpersonal Trust: An Introduction

   • Ken J. Rotenberg

   Pages 1-4

3. What Is a Lie? Children’s Use of Intentions and Consequences in Lexical Definitions and Moral Evaluations of Lying

   • Candida C. Peterson

   Pages 5-19

4. Young Children’s Verbal Misrepresentations of Reality

   • Magda Stouthamer-Loeber

   Pages 20-42

5. Children’s Cue Use and Strategies for Detecting Deception

   • Ken J. Rotenberg

   Pages 43-57

6. Children’s Responses to Authentic Versus Polite Smiles

   • Daphne Blunt Bugental, Hal Kopeikin, Linda Lazowski

   Pages 58-79

7. Children’s Deception Skills and Social Competence

   • Robert S. Feldman, Pierre Philippot

   Pages 80-99

8. Children’s Trustworthiness: Judgments by Teachers, Parents, and Peers

   • John M. Wilson, James L. Carroll

   Pages 100-117

9. Betrayal Among Children and Adults

   • Warren H. Jones, Miramar G. Cohn, Curtis E. Miller

   Pages 118-134

10. Trust and Children’s Developing Theories of Mind

    • Michael Chandler, Suzanne Hala

    Pages 135-159

11. The Trust-Value Basis of Children’s Friendship

    • Ken J. Rotenberg

    Pages 160-172

Social philosophers during the course of history and modern day researchers have expressed the belief that interpersonal trust is essential for harmonious and cooperative social relationships among people. Interpersonal trust has been described as the social cement that binds interpersonal relationships in society and is necessary for its survival. This book provides researchers and professionals who deal with children an insight into a critical facet of children's social functioning. Interpersonal trust is conceptualized as children' s confidence that a person's verbal or nonverbal communication accurately conveys facts or internal states. This includes children's sensitivity to lying, deception and promise violations.

• Confidence
• Peers
• children
• communication
• research
• state
• trust

• Department of Psychology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada

  Ken J. Rotenberg

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