Who do children trust? We investigated the extent to which children use face-based versus behavior-based cues when deciding whom to trust in a multiturn economic trust game. Children's (N = 42; aged 8 to 10 years; 31 females; predominantly White) trust decisions were informed by an interaction between face-based and behavior-based cues to trustworthiness, similarly to those of adults (N = 41; aged 17 to 48 years; 23 females; predominantly White). Facial trustworthiness guided children's investment decisions initially, such that they invested highly with trustworthy-looking partners and less with untrustworthy-looking partners. However, by the end of the trust game, after children had experienced game partners' fair or unfair return behavior, they overcame this bias and instead used partners' previous behavior to guide their trust decisions. Using partners' return behavior to guide decisions was the most rational strategy, because partners' facial trustworthiness was not an accurate cue to their actual trustworthiness. This dynamic use of different cues to trustworthiness suggests sophisticated levels of social cognition in children, which may reflect the social importance of trust impressions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

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儿童在经济信任游戏中动态使用基于面部和行为的线索。

孩子信任谁？我们调查了儿童在决定在多轮经济信任游戏中信任谁时使用基于面部的线索与基于行为的线索的程度。儿童（N = 42；8 至 10 岁；31 名女性；主要是白人）的信任决定是通过基于面部和基于行为的可信度线索之间的相互作用来决定的，类似于成人（N = 41；17 至 10 岁） 48 岁；23 名女性；主要是白人）。面部可信度最初指导儿童的投资决策，因此他们对看起来值得信赖的伙伴进行了大量投资，而对看起来不可靠的伙伴的投资较少。然而，在信任游戏结束时，孩子们在经历了游戏伙伴公平或不公平的回报行为后，克服了这种偏见，转而使用伙伴的回报行为。以前的行为来指导他们的信任决策。使用合作伙伴的返回行为来指导决策是最合理的策略，因为合作伙伴的面部可信度并不是他们实际可信度的准确线索。这种对不同可信度线索的动态使用表明儿童具有复杂的社会认知水平，这可能反映了信任印象的社会重要性。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2022 APA，保留所有权利）。