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The role of interpersonal trust in children’s friendship is portrayed vividly in various fiction books and magazine articles for children.1 Those writings include rather “real-life” descriptions of how children’s friendships are affected by secret sharing, secret keeping, promise fulfillment, and the underlying perceptions of trust and attributions of trustworthiness. The following are some examples.
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Rotenberg, K.J. (1991). The Trust-Value Basis of Children’s Friendship. In: Rotenberg, K.J. (eds) Children’s Interpersonal Trust. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3134-9_10
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