Table 7 Tests of the trust hypothesis (that justifications, compared to Mere explanations, more strongly recover trust) in experiment 3, by dilemma and agent.

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

Dilemma

Agent

Trust recovery (\(\:{\eta}_{p}^{2}\)) for justification > explanation

Overall

Moral trust

Performance trust

DNR

Robot

1.7%

1.7%

[0.6%]

 

Human

5.7%

3.7%

5.8%

Toxic Gas

Robot

4.5%

3.8%

1.5%

 

Human

3.8%

4.4%

2.0%

  1. Note: Effect sizes \(\:{\eta}_{p}^{2}\) show the interaction between trust change and Response (justification vs. explanation), controlling for agent’s Decision in the dilemma. Effects in square brackets are not significant at p <.05.
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