Table 6 People displayed substantial trust loss (decline from baseline to after learning about agent’s decision) when morally disagreeing (rather than agreeing) with the decision (Experiment 3).

From: The power of justifications to repair human-robot trust, even under moral disagreement

Dilemma

Agent

Trust loss (\(\:{\eta}_{p}^{2}\)) due to moral disagreement

Overall

Moral

Performance

DNR

Robot

9.2%

3.9%

10.1%

 

Human

16.6% (a)

14.7% (b)

15.1% (c)

Toxic Gas

Robot

10.0%

7.3%

9.6%

 

Human

8.7%

6.6%

9.1%

  1. Note: Effect sizes \(\:{\eta}_{p}^{2}\) show the interaction between trust change and moral disagreement. Letters in parentheses correspond to panels in Fig. 5.
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