Trust development as an expectancy-learning process: Testing contingency effects.

Trust in parental support and subsequent support seeking behavior, a hallmark of secure attachment, result from experiences with sensitive parents during distress. However, the underlying developmental mechanism remains unclear. We tested the hypothesis that trust is the result of an expectancy-lear...

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Main Authors: Guy Bosmans, Theodore E A Waters, Chloe Finet, Simon De Winter, Dirk Hermans
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225934