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“Several researchers provided evidence that trust and distrust are two related, yet separate dimensions (Lewicki, McAllister, & Bies, 1998;Vaske, 2016;Harrison McKnight & Chervany, 2001;Benamati, Serva, & Fuller, 2006).”
From Trust, distrust, and appropriate reliance in (X)AI: A conceptual clarification of user trust and survey of its empirical evaluation (2025) · cites this paper as Harrison McKnight & Chervany, 2001
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“Some examples identifying the merit of considering trust and distrust as separate dimensions, which can be found across different subfields of human-technology interaction (Kohn et al., 2021;Harrison McKnight & Chervany, 2001;McKnight et al., 2004;Benamati et al., 2006;Ou & Sia, 2010;Fang, Guo, & Zhang, 2015;Thielsch, Meeßen, & Hertel, 2018).”
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“the understanding of trust also largely depends on the domain of study [38,103]”
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“Yet, outside of the feld of HCI, many trust scholars have advocated for the notion that trust and distrust should be treated as two distinct concepts, rather than opposites [16,38,63,102].”
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- Harrison McKnight, D., & Chervany, N. L.
- Affiliations
- University of Minnesota (US)
- Venue
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Published
- 2001
- Pages
- 27-54
- ISSN
- 0302-9743 (ISSN-L)
- 1611-3349
- OpenAlex
- W1976860309
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- 747
- References
- 105
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- FWCI
- 15.75
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
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- closed
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- Lecture notes in computer science (publishedVersion)
- Lecture notes in computer science
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social Power and Status Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social Capital and Networks
- Keywords
- trust, distrust, conceptual definitions, disposition to trust, institutional trust, trusting beliefs, trust behavior, construct measurement
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