Browsing by Subject "Interpersonal trust"

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The development of trust judgements about lie-tellers during middle childhood
(2021-06) Bahar, Aslı Yasemin
This thesis investigates children's trust evaluations for lie-tellers across three ages (7-,9-, and 11-year-olds) and a number of social situations. A total of 145 primary school children were tested on a Lie-Telling Evaluation Task (LET), created by the researchers, and classical interpretive ToM tasks. Lie-Telling Evaluation Task (LET) included eight short stories in which the protagonist lied. Half of the stories involved a culturally-appropriate lie, whereas the other half showcased a self-oriented lie: The participants were asked to rate their reliability and emotional trust towards the protagonist. Parents' general parenting styles and lie-telling behavior towards their children for instrumental purposes during preschool was investigated. The analysis focused on children's trust evaluations on three lie scenarios: avoiding punishment, avoiding shame, and being polite. Results indicated that children reported all lie-tellers as untrustworthy, yet lie scenario had a significant effect on trust judgements. There was also an interaction of lie scenario and age such that children's trust evaluations for a protagonist lying to avoid punishment and to be polite decreased with age while children's trust evaluations for a protagonist lying to avoid shame increased. Children' s total ToM abilities, parenting styles and parents' instrumental use of threat lies were not related to children's trust for the above three scenarios. However, parents' instrumental use of threat lies towards their children indirectly affected the influence of children's overall ToM performance on their trust evaluations for lie-tellers lying to avoid punishment.
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A tale of two fears: negotiating trust and neighborly relations in urbanizing Turkey
(Taylor and Francis, 2020) Ma, Jermaine S.; Hoard, P. R.
Using a Turkish empirical case, we show how trust is negotiated among rural-to-urban migrant women as a result of their move from informal housing where they lived clustered with other migrant women, sharing their personal lives (arguably expressing and facilitating high trust), to apartment buildings where it requires life to be shared with a diverse group of residents (rural/urban, religious sectarian, ethnic) and where they are expected to live individualistic lives. Given this socio-spatial transformation, we suggest trusting is understood and experienced by migrant women, as an on-going relational process of negotiating two competing fears to (1) not be alone; and (2) not be harmed by the people they risk/desire to be close to (physically and emotionally). This is significant for migrant women whose conservative values and way of life relies heavily on other women in close proximity to them (i.e. neighbors) for emotional and material support in the rhythm of daily life. This is further complicated by also needing to negotiate competing group identities – part and parcel to neighborly relations in polarized societies like Turkey. The process of trusting, we suggest, entails an on-going relational risk assessment/negotiation through knowing, visiting and sharing over time (in material and emotional ways).
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The lesser of two evils: approaching trust with Bourdieu’s habitus
(Routledge, 2023-05-23) Ma, Jermaine S.
In this paper I borrow from sociological scholars and theories in order to approach trust(ing) with Bourdieu's habitus. I demonstrate the use of a conceptual framework comprised of three sociological theories in the context of a subset of women in urbanising Türkiye who belong to, what I call, a gecekondu habitus. Throughout this paper I discuss the necessity of viewing interpersonal trust in the context of lived experiences, which enables us to see the nuanced ways trust might express itself in unexpected ways. Specifically, I suggest that utilising Bourdieu's habitus is one way to centre and situate context in trust research. By using Bourdieu's habitus along with theories of social reproduction and social capital I position my study on interpersonal trust in context, elucidate the gecekondu habitus, and with empirical examples illuminate nuances of trust and vulnerability noting its embeddedness in social networks. Ultimately in this paper I show how layering sociological theories as lenses highlights a nuanced view of trusting for women that expresses itself in two ways: (1) trust as choosing between vulnerabilities in difficult choices; and (2) the process of trusting (in assessing trustworthiness) functioning similarly to social capital a la Bourdieu and Coleman.
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Trust in context: problematizing trust(ing) in Turkey among rural-to-urban migrant women
(2021-01) Ma, Jermaine Siu Yee
This dissertation examines trust and problematizes the process(es) and context in the case of rural-to-urban migrant women in contemporary urbanizing Turkey. The influx of rural-to-urban migration since the 1950s has impacted both spatial and social change in the country’s largest cities, including the transformation of gecekondu dwellings into apartment complexes. The changes and challenges that now accompany apartment living—the loss of communal and informal ways of life facilitated by the spatiality of gecekondu—impact women as they navigate social relations. Using the gecekondu habitus as a conceptual tool, this qualitative study takes a contextual, relational and process-oriented approach to trust by asking: How is trust understood and experienced by migrant women? How does this affect everyday life for migrant women and their families? And what does it look like to foster trusting neighborly relations in light of apartment life? As a result of analyzing twenty in-depth semi-structured interviews by focusing on emerging themes this study found first that migrant women understood and experienced trust(ing) as an on-going relational process of negotiating two competing desires—not being harmed and not being alone—entailing a gendered iterative practice through knowing, visiting, sharing, and helping over time. And second, women need their neighbors in order to do the work of social reproduction given their structural disadvantages and the challenges of apartment living. This necessitates the negotiation of neighborly (trust) relations in the formalized spatiality of the apartments with those from different sociocultural groups, including those who have not lived in a gecekondu.