To trust or not to trust: social decision-making in post-institutionalized, internationally adopted youth

To trust or not to trust.

Sensory processing in internationally adopted, post-institutionalized children.

BACKGROUND/METHODS   Sensory processing capacities of 8-12-year-old internationally adopted (IA) children who experienced prolonged institutional care (> 12 months with 75% of pre-adoption lives in institutional care) prior to adoption into family environments (PI) were compared to a group of IA children who were adopted early (< 8 months) predominantly from foster care with little or no instit...

Social competence in internationally adopted and institutionalized children

A growing, sizable proportion of school children do not live in conventional family environments. Among these, internationally adopted children have gained increasing visibility in recent years. While other areas of their behavior have been widely explored, little is known about adopted children’s social competence and their integration into peer groups. This study, involving 148 children betwe...

Peer victimization and internalizing symptoms among post-institutionalized, internationally adopted youth.

How to Trust: A Model for Trust Decision Making

This paper concerns decision-making processes that rely on trust. In particular, it analyzes how different aspects of trust (e.g., trust, trustworthiness, trustworthy evidence) influence trust decisions, and acting on them eventually. It proposes a trust decision model that structures the analysis of contextualized trust problems. Rather than seeking a general definition of trust, this paper ad...