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Trust, distrust, and appropriate reliance in (X)AI: A conceptual clarification of user trust and survey of its empirical evaluation

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Visser, Roel, Peters, Tobias M., Scharlau, Ingrid, Hammer, Barbara·2025·Cognitive Systems Research

Abstract

A current concern in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is to ensure the trustworthiness of AI systems. The development of explainability methods is one prominent way to address this, which has often resulted in the assumption that the use of explainability will lead to an increase in the trust of users and wider society. However, the dynamics between explainability and trust are not well established and empirical investigations of their relation remain mixed or inconclusive. In this paper we provide a detailed description of the concepts of user trust and distrust in AI and their relation to appropriate reliance. For that we draw from the fields of machine learning , human–computer interaction, and the social sciences. Based on these insights, we have created a focused study of empirical literature of existing empirical studies that investigate the effects of AI systems and XAI methods on user (dis)trust, in order to substantiate our conceptualization of trust, distrust, and reliance. With respect to our conceptual understanding we identify gaps in existing empirical work. With clarifying the concepts and summarizing the empirical studies, we aim to provide researchers, who examine user trust in AI, with an improved starting point for developing user studies to measure and evaluate the user’s attitude towards and reliance on AI systems.

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TL;DR

The paper clarifies user trust and distrust in AI/XAI, arguing that distrust is a separate dimension relevant to appropriate reliance, and surveys empirical studies on how AI/XAI methods affect user (dis)trust. It finds mixed or inconclusive evidence and recommends explicit definitions, standardized validated scales, and separate measurement of trust and distrust.

Key findings

  • Trust is an attitude toward a system, while trustworthiness is a property of the system; trust is influenced by trustworthiness but is not fully determined by it, and users may trust untrustworthy models or distrust trustworthy ones.
  • Trust and distrust are related but separate dimensions; distrust can have positive consequences (e.g., increased creativity, reduced correspondence bias, improved memory performance, critical reflection) and is needed to mitigate overtrust, not only disuse.
  • In the survey, most studies use self-report trust measures; only one study applies a physiological trust measurement (Zhou et al., 2018). Textual interfaces are most frequent (45 papers), followed by visual/graphical descriptions (28 papers), and 31 papers do not target a specific user type.
  • Effects of explanations on trust are mostly (moderately) positive, but many experiments yield mixed or inconclusive outcomes, especially for behavioral trust measures; clear negative effects are less common.

Methods

  • Conceptual clarification drawing from machine learning, human-computer interaction, and the social sciences to distinguish trust, distrust, trustworthiness, and appropriate reliance.
  • Survey of theoretical and empirical research on the effects of (X)AI systems and XAI methods on user (dis)trust, using a taxonomy of components such as application domain, ML methods, model descriptors, interface modality, experimental setup, evaluation criteria, trust measurement type, outcomes, and limitations.
  • Trust measurements are categorized as self-report, behavioral, and physiological; evaluation criteria are grouped into Trust & Reliance, Understanding & Mental Models, System Satisfaction & Usability, Task Performance, and Other.

Limitations

  • The paper states that many surveyed studies use mock or proxy tasks and Wizard of Oz setups, which limits realism, validity, and generalizability and does not inform specific XAI methods; custom self-report scales often lack tested validity and standardization, hindering comparability.
  • The paper states that empirical results on the explainability-trust hypothesis remain mixed or inconclusive, distrust remains under-researched, and the two-dimensional trust/distrust approach lacks sufficient empirical testing.
  • Evident from the text: the survey does not report a systematic search or inclusion strategy, and the synthesis is descriptive rather than meta-analytic; many antecedent factors and their interactive effects remain unexplored.

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  • Premisecitation
    § 5 Perceived versus actual trustworthiness

    Passive and indirect stakeholders are mostly ignored by current research on trust in AI.

    “it is important to note that passive and indirect stakeholders should also be considered a type of user, something which is mostly ignored by current research on trust in AI (Lukyanenko, Maass, & Storey, 2022).”
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    § 5 Perceived versus actual trustworthiness

    Explanations can increase users' reliance on AI predictions even if the AI system's predictions are wrong.

    “They show a number of studies that suggest that explanations can increase users' reliance on AI predictions even if the AI system's predictions are wrong.”
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    • cites Chen et al., 2023 source
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    § 5 Perceived versus actual trustworthiness

    A common impulse is to nudge people into trusting the AI system rather than to distrust it.

    “A common impulse, for example, is to nudge people into trusting the AI system (i.e. to find an explanation plausible and to accept it) rather than to distrust it (Ehsan & Riedl, 2020).”
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    § 4 Distrust as a separate dimension

    The field of trust in XAI inherited a focus on trust and neglect of distrust because it took prominent work on trust in automation as a starting point.

    “The field of trust in XAI inherited this focus on trust and neglect of distrust, because it took prominent work on trust in automation (Lee & See, 2004;Hoff & Bashir, 2015) as a starting point (Thiebes et al., 2021), which drew from R. C. Mayer et al. (1995a)'s model.”
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      In “Reliability / Predictability,” the paper draws on Lee and See’s work on trust in automation to conceptualize trust in AI-based systems; “Extant trust conceptualizations” also cites Mayer’s model. It does not establish that the field of trust in XAI inherited a neglect of distrust from that work, or that this was the field’s starting point. No page numbers were provided in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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    § 5 Perceived versus actual trustworthiness

    Several studies investigate or observe the misleading effects that explanations can have.

    “Several studies investigate or observe the misleading effects that explanations can have (Eiband, Buschek, Kremer, & Hussmann, 2019;Lakkaraju & Bastani, 2020;Dimanov, Bhatt, Jamnik, & Weller, 2020;Suresh, Lao, & Liccardi, 2020).”
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    § 5 Perceived versus actual trustworthiness

    The lack of a multidisciplinary approach is a potential pitfall for both the development and evaluation of XAI methods.

    “They note that the lack of a multidisciplinary approach is a potential pitfall for both the development and evaluation of XAI methods.”
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    § 5 Perceived versus actual trustworthiness

    Most XAI methods are developed in a more technically, computationally focused environment, and as a result potentially useful contributions/insights from other fields, such as HCI, are often ignored.

    “(Lopes et al., 2022) point out that most XAI methods are developed in a more technically, computationally, focused environment and, as a result, potentially useful contributions/insights from other fields, such as HCI, are often ignored.”
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    Premisecitation
    § 4 Distrust as a separate dimension

    Distrust or suspicion led to an increase of creativity.

    “Distrust or suspicion led, for example, to an increase of creativity (J.Mayer & Mussweiler, 2011) or a reduction of the correspondence bias (Fein, 1996).”
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      The Discussion reports that distrust enhanced creativity in Study 2 under conditions of privacy. The claim omits that qualification: the Social vs. Private Creativity section explains that distrust can instead hinder creativity when ideas must be shared publicly. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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    Interpretationcitation
    § 3.1 Explainability and trust

    Explanations can also indicate false predictions and enable distrust.

    “Yet, explanations can also indicate false predictions and, thus, sometimes another utility of explanations is also identified, e.g., not trusting predictions (Ribeiro, Singh, & Guestrin, 2016), critical reflection (Ehsan & Riedl, 2020), or enabling distrust (Jacovi et al., 2021).”
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    Premisecitation
    § 5 Perceived versus actual trustworthiness

    Vilone and Longo distinguish two types of human-centric evaluation studies: qualitative and quantitative.

    “(Vilone & Longo, 2020) distinguish two types of human-centric evaluation studies: qualitative and quantitative.”
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    § 7.1 Factors of trust

    Research into XAI systems covers a wide variety of application domains, which is supported by the paper's survey.

    “Research into XAI systems cover a wide variety of application domains (Adadi & Berrada, 2018;Ferreira & Monteiro, 2020;Lai et al., 2021), which is supported by our survey.”
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    Premisecitation
    § 7.1 Factors of trust

    Common terms that relate to users and are frequently employed to analyze and evaluate trust include user knowledge, technical proficiency, familiarity, confidence, beliefs, faith, emotions, and personal attachments.

    “Common terms that relate to users that are frequently employed to analyze and evaluate trust, include user knowledge, technical proficiency, familiarity, confidence, beliefs, faith, emotions, and personal attachments (Mohseni et al., 2021).”
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    § 7.3 Evaluation & trust measurement

    Kohn et al. (2021) describe 16 different types of self-report methods used in trust in automation.

    “Kohn et al. (2021) describe 16 different types of self-report methods used in trust in automation.”
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    § 7.3 Evaluation & trust measurement

    Kohn et al. (2021) review different measurements of trust in automation and describe three categories: self-report, physiological, and behavioral.

    “In Kohn et al. (2021) the authors give a review of different measurements of trust in automation.They describe three categories in which these methods can be placed: self-report, physiological, and behavioral.”
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    Premisecitation
    § 7.3 Evaluation & trust measurement

    Questionnaires measure participants' perception of their trust, which does not always correspond to their actions.

    “Such questionnaires measure the participants' perception of their trust (T.Miller, 2022) that do not always correspond to their actions.”
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    § 7.3 Evaluation & trust measurement

    Rusk (2018) introduces a scale that measures trust and distrust separately and provides a first validation.

    “In his dissertation Rusk (2018) sets out to close a research gap and introduces a scale that measures trust and distrust separately and provides a first validation.”
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    § Model descriptors

    A lack of realism can hinder the validity and generalizability of study results.

    “While a lack of realism can hinder the validity and generalizability of study results (Lai et al., 2021).”
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    § Model descriptors

    The Wizard of Oz setup allows researchers full control over the outputs that the user is seeing and allows them to specifically tune the actual trustworthiness of the system to determine to what extent this affects the users.

    “The benefit of this is that it allows the researchers full control over the outputs that the user is seeing and allows them to specifically tune the (actual) trustworthiness of the system to determine to what extend this affects the users (Lai et al., 2021).”
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    Premisecitation
    § 7.3 Evaluation & trust measurement

    Scharowski and Perrig (2023) clarify that trust as an attitude should be measured via questionnaires whereas behavioural measures are suitable to assess reliance.

    “With respect to the use of self-report and behavioral measures, Scharowski and Perrig (2023) clarify that trust as an attitude should be measured via questionnaires whereas behavioural measures are suitable to assess reliance.”
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    Premisecitation
    § 7.3 Evaluation & trust measurement

    Custom self-report scales are also observed in the evaluation of XAI methods and in the broad context of trust in information systems.

    “A procedure that is also observed in the evaluation of XAI methods (Lopes et al., 2022) or in the broad context of trust in information systems (Rusk, 2018).”
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    • cites Lopes et al., 2022 source

      Section 4.1 (Trust) says Likert-scale questionnaires are widely used to assess trust in XAI systems, and Table 3 lists a five-point questionnaire for users’ perceptions of trust. The copy does not establish that these scales were custom-made. The separate claim about trust in information systems is attached to Rusk (2018), not Lopes et al. (LLM, conf=0.78)

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    § 5 Perceived versus actual trustworthiness

    In the paper's survey, the user studies focus primarily on direct users of AI systems.

    “While in our survey the user studies focus primarily on direct users of AI system”
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    § 7.1 Factors of trust

    The surveyed papers are concerned with various domains, ranging from higher risk ones (e.g. medical diagnosis, self-driving cars, finance, or law) to low-medium risk (e.g. entertainment or social media) applications.

    “The surveyed papers are concerned with various domains, ranging from higher risk ones (e.g.medical diagnosis, self-driving cars, finance, or law, e.g.recidivism prediction) to low-medium risk (e.g.entertainment or social media related such as movie recommendation) applications.”
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    § 7.1 Factors of trust

    In the paper's survey, generic, mixed participants are often recruited via crowdsource platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk or Prolific.

    “Often generic, mixed, participants are recruited via crowdsource platforms, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk or Prolific.”
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    Findingcitation
    § 7.1 Factors of trust

    Different types of applications are used in the user studies, such as decision support systems, recommender systems, image classification, text annotation, or speech recognition.

    “Different types of applications are used in the user studies, such as decision support systems”
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    § 7.1 Factors of trust

    In the paper's survey, some authors select specifically one user type such as non-experts or domain experts.

    “Other authors select specifically one user type such as non-experts”
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    § 7.1 Factors of trust

    In most studies, a variety of demographic information about the user is collected, even when the authors do not target any group specifically.

    “In most studies a variety of demographic information about the user is collected (e.g.education level (Omeiza et al., 2021)), even when the authors do not target any group specifically.”
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    § Model descriptors

    Most researchers study the effects of different models whether they are proxy or mock models or actual underlying models.

    “Most researchers study the effects of different models whether they are proxy or mock models (i.e.Wizard of Oz setups) or actual underlying models.”
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    § Model descriptors

    In the paper's survey, textual interfaces, such as showing a worded explanation of the output, are the most frequently used interface modality (45 papers), followed by visual or graphical descriptions (28 papers).

    “In our survey we find different interface modalities being used, where textual interfaces, such as showing a worded explanation of the output, are most frequently used (45 papers), followed by visual or graphical descriptions (28 papers), such as image based methods”
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    § Model descriptors

    Some papers perform visual highlighting of different elements of the interface, such as highlighting the words with the highest feature importances.

    “Some papers perform visual highlighting of different elements of the interface (Papenmeier et al., 2022(Papenmeier et al., , 2021;;Bansal et al., 2021;Linder et al., 2021;Schmidt & Biessmann, 2019;Wang & Yin, 2023;Chen et al., 2023;Guesmi et al., 2023), such as highlighting the words with the highest feature importances, to make them stand out more compared to the other parts of the interface and”
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    § Model descriptors

    Many types of local explanations are used, namely example based, contrastive, (pixel) attribution, counterfactual or 'What if', nearest neighbor explanations, or describing the model's reasoning or logical rationale for the output.

    “Many types of local explanations are used, namely example based (F.Yang et al., 2020;Chen et al., 2023;Alam & Mueller, 2021;Leichtmann et al., 2023;Kulesza et al., 2013), contrastive (Omeiza et al., 2021), (pixel) attribution (Nourani et al., 2019;Mahsan Nourani, 2020;Leichtmann et al., 2023;Bussone et al., 2015), counterfactual or 'What if' (Guesmi et al., 2023;Wang & Yin, 2022), nearest neighbor”
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    § Model descriptors

    Users are often provided with some form of model performance metrics, such as accuracy, confusion matrices, or class-based error rates.

    “User are also often provided with some form of model performance metrics, such as the accuracy (Papenmeier et al., 2022(Papenmeier et al., , 2021;;Ming Yin, 2019;Lim et al., 2009;Rechkemmer & Yin, 2022;Lu & Yin, 2021;Thaler & Schmid, 2021;Suresh et al., 2020;Drozdal et al., 2020), confusion matrices (Drozdal et al., 2020), or class-based error rates (Thaler & Schmid, 2021).”
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    Findingcitation
    § Model descriptors

    The papers that state a specific ML method make use of a range of different models of varying complexity and interpretability, from decision trees, SVMs, logistic regression, and Naive Bayes to Random Forest, CNN, language, time series, and Reinforcement Learning models.

    “The papers that do state a specific ML method make use of a range of different models of varying complexity and interpretability from decision trees”
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    § 7.3 Evaluation & trust measurement

    Mostly there is a (moderately) positive effect on user trust from the application of explanations, while a clear negative effect is not as common especially for behavioral trust measures.

    “From this we can see that mostly there is a (moderately) positive effect on user trust from the application of explanations, while a clear negative effect is not as common especially for behavioral trust measures.”
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    § Model descriptors

    The most common approach is to use models of varying accuracy and to observe whether this has an effect on the user or whether users can accurately detect the change and adjust their perceived trustworthiness of the model and reliance accordingly.

    “The most common approach is to use models of varying accuracy (Yu et al., 2018(Yu et al., , 2017(Yu et al., , 2019;;Bansal et al., 2021;Donald R. Honeycutt, 2020;Ming Yin, 2019;Zhou, Yu, & Chen, 2018;Zhou et al., 2019;Nourani et al., 2019) and to observe whether this has an effect on the user or whether or not users can accurately detect the change and adjust their perceived trustworthiness of the”
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    § Model descriptors

    It is common that a mock model is used and not an actual underlying ML model, so the specific local explanation method is not always described in detail but rather users receive some sort of local explanation of which a high-level description is given.

    “As we detail later in this section, it is common that a mock model is used and not an actual underlying ML model, therefore, in these cases, the specific local explanation method is not always described in detail but rather that the users receive some sort of local explanation of which a high-level description is given.”
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    § 7.3 Evaluation & trust measurement

    Some miscellaneous evaluation criteria are classified in the 'Other' category.

    “Some miscellaneous criteria we classify in the 'Other' category.”
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    § Model descriptors

    In most of the papers, the actual underlying model that is used is not clearly specified.

    “In most of the papers the actual underlying model that is used is not clearly specified.”
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    § Model descriptors

    Many studies make use of feature based display methods, such as input features and output explanation, or global feature importance to describe the model.

    “Many studies make use of feature based display methods (Kulesza et al., 2013;Bussone et al., 2015;Zhang et al., 2020;Guesmi et al., 2021;Jiang et al., 2022;Cheng et al., 2019;Wang & Yin, 2022;Ming Yin, 2019;Linder et al., 2021;Lim et al., 2009;Wanner et al., 2020;Buçinca et al., 2021;Zhou et al., 2019;Drozdal et al., 2020;Lu & Yin, 2021), such as input features (e.g.showing the values of the input”
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    § Model descriptors

    Some less frequently used descriptors are providing users with introductory information about the system and underlying model, such as model architecture, which algorithm was used, system limitations, what the explanatory process is and how it works, or information about training data, data distributions, and process of feature engineering.

    “Some less frequently used descriptors are providing the users with (introductory) information about the system and underlying model (Körber et al., 2018;Chen et al., 2023), such as the model architecture (Suresh et al., 2020), which algorithm was used, system limitations (Körber et al., 2018), what the explanatory process is and how it works (Zhao et al., 2019), or information about the training”
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    § Model descriptors

    In the paper's survey, the most common strategy to test the impact of different descriptors is to either show or not show a specific descriptor, usually applied for various local explanations and uncertainty estimates.

    “The most common strategy is to either show or not show a specific descriptor, which is usually applied for various local explanations and uncertainty estimates.”
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    § Model descriptors

    Another strategy is to supply the user with explanations of various levels of detail or various combinations of different explanations.

    “Another strategy is to supply the user with explanations of various levels of detail (e.g.only showing an uncertainty estimate, combining it with a pixel attribution) or various combinations of different explanations (e.g.combining uncertainty estimates with an example based explanations).”
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    § Model descriptors

    The modality of the explanation and the interface can also vary or be combined.

    “The modality of the explanation and the interface can also vary or be combined (e.g.showing a text based explanation along with an input image).”
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    § 8 Open questions & recommendations

    When comparing descriptors, modulation strategies, and (XAI) methods used with user questions and needs, types of explanations, descriptors, and XAI methods described in overviews, there is still a number of areas and methods that have been either not investigated yet or for which results are currently inconclusive.

    “When comparing the descriptors, modulation strategies, and (XAI) methods used with those user questions and needs, types of explanations, descriptors, and XAI methods that are described in the various overviews we find that there is still a number of areas and methods that have been either not investigated yet or those for which results are currently inconclusive.”
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    § 8 Open questions & recommendations

    Many different setups for various application domains, types, and users remain un(der)investigated for many of the potential antecedent and confounding factors of trust.

    “Many different setups for various application domains, types, and users remain un(der)investigated for many of the potential antecedent and confounding factors of trust.”
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    § 9 Conclusion

    There is growing interest in user trust in (X)AI and the development of methods that can foster appropriate reliance in trustworthy AI methods.

    “We have shown that there is growing interest in user trust in (X)AI and the development of methods that can foster appropriate reliance in trustworthy AI methods.”
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    § 3.2 Desideratum of appropriate trust

    Beneath the desideratum of increased appropriate trust lies the desideratum of increased appropriate reliance.

    “So, beneath the desideratum of increased appropriate trust lies the desideratum of increased appropriate reliance.”
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    § 4 Distrust as a separate dimension

    In the two-dimensional approach, low trust is not the same as high distrust, and low distrust is not equal to high trust.

    “In the two-dimensional approach, by definition, low trust is not the same as high distrust, and low distrust is not equal to high trust (Lewicki et al., 1998).”
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    § 5 Perceived versus actual trustworthiness

    Different users have different objectives and levels of expertise and might be impacted differently by different types of applications.

    “Different users have different objectives and levels of expertise and might, therefore, be impacted differently by different types of applications (Liao & Varshney, 2021).”
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    § 4 Distrust as a separate dimension

    Trust triggers a perception focus on similarities that makes it harder to remember single entities.

    “According to Posten and Gino (2021), trust triggers a perception focus on similarities that makes it harder to remember single entities.”
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    § 4 Distrust as a separate dimension

    The distrust mindset leads to an activation of incongruent and alternative associations.

    “The distrust mindset leads to an activation of incongruent and alternative associations, which aligns well with the increase of creativity, reflection, and innovation.”
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    § 5 Perceived versus actual trustworthiness

    Users may perceive a system's trustworthiness incorrectly and may, therefore, undertrust or disuse trustworthy systems and overtrust untrustworthy ones.

    “To further complicate the matter of trustworthiness, users may perceive a system's trustworthiness incorrectly and may, therefore, undertrust, or disuse, trustworthy systems and overtrust untrustworthy ones (Schlicker & Langer, 2021).”
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    § 5 Perceived versus actual trustworthiness

    Zhou et al. distinguish between subjective and objective metrics for human-centric evaluation of XAI.

    “Similarly, (Zhou et al., 2021) distinguish between subjective and objective metrics for human-centric evaluation of XAI.”
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    § 2 Trust in AI

    Trustworthiness influences trust but does not fully determine it.

    “Overall, trustworthiness influences trust but does not fully determine it.”
    • Also stated in: § 2 Trust in AI · plain
      “A high level of these three factors of trustworthiness does not necessarily lead to trust, and trust can also go along with little trustworthiness (R. C. Mayer et al., 1995a).”
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    § 4 Distrust as a separate dimension

    Distrust or suspicion led to a reduction of the correspondence bias.

    “Distrust or suspicion led, for example, to an increase of creativity (J.Mayer & Mussweiler, 2011) or a reduction of the correspondence bias (Fein, 1996).”
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    Premisecitation
    § 5 Perceived versus actual trustworthiness

    XAI systems allow users to assess how reliable the system is and, therefore, to correctly calibrate their perception of the system's accuracy.

    “XAI systems allow users to assess how reliable the system is and, therefore, to correctly calibrate their perception of the system's accuracy (Mohseni et al., 2021) or, in other words, to calibrate their perceived trustworthiness of the system.”
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    Interpretationreasoning
    § 3.2 Desideratum of appropriate trust

    Trust does not lead to appropriate reliance because trust is not only influenced by the correctness, i.e. the performance, of an AI.

    “Trust does not lead to this because trust is not only influenced by the correctness, i.e. the performance of an AI.”
    Quote in the paperSubstantial claim
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    § 5 Perceived versus actual trustworthiness

    In order to properly compare results of different studies and experiments, a user evaluation must be both reliable and valid.

    “In order to be able to properly compare the results of different studies and experiments it is necessary that a user evaluation is both reliable and valid (Joppe, 2000).”
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    § 4 Distrust as a separate dimension

    Distrust shifts the perception focus towards differences and increases memory performance.

    “Distrust shifts the perception focus towards differences and, therefore, increases memory performance.”
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    § 5 Perceived versus actual trustworthiness

    Explainability is an inherently human-centric property.

    “As explainability is an inherently human-centric property (Lopes, Silva, Braga, Oliveira, & Rosado, 2022), (Mohseni et al., 2021) and (Liao & Varshney, 2021) believe that HCI and human-centric evaluation can contribute to solving XAI algorithms and applications' limitations.”
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    § 5 Perceived versus actual trustworthiness

    Many ways exist to group and identify different user types and stakeholders in the context of XAI.

    “Already many ways exist to group and identify different user types and stakeholder in the context of XAI (Mohseni et al., 2021;Liao & Varshney, 2021;Meske et al., 2020).”
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    § 7.1 Factors of trust

    Many different models to classify and categorize the factors that influence trust exist.

    “Many different models to classify and categorize the factors that influence trust (i.e. its antecedents) exist (Toreini et al., 2020;Siau & Wang, 2018;Hoff & Bashir, 2015;Schaefer, Chen, Szalma, & Hancock, 2016;Riegelsberger, Sasse, & McCarthy, 2005;Kee & Knox, 1970;Kaplan et al., 2023;R. Yang & Wibowo, 2022;R. C. Mayer, Davis, & Schoorman, 1995b;Dietz & Hartog, 2006).”
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    § Abstract

    The dynamics between explainability and trust are not well established, and empirical investigations of their relation remain mixed or inconclusive.

    “However, the dynamics between explainability and trust are not well established and empirical investigations of their relation remain mixed or inconclusive.”
    • Also stated in: § 1 Introduction · plain
      “Problematically, the dynamics between explainability and trust are far from being clarified, with both terms lacking precise definitions (Ferrario & Loi, 2022) and results from empirical investigations of their relation remaining mixed and inconclusive (Kastner et al., 2021).”
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    Interpretationreasoning
    § 3.2 Desideratum of appropriate trust

    A lower willingness to rely, a lower trust, would decrease the likelihood of overtrust but would also lead to less reliance overall.

    “While it may be true that a lower willingness to rely, a lower trust, would decrease the likelihood of overtrust, it would also lead to less reliance overall.”
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    Interpretationreasoning
    § 5 Perceived versus actual trustworthiness

    An exclusive focus on trust, rather than healthy scepticism and distrust, is potentially dangerous, as a mismatch between actual and perceived trustworthiness can result in overtrust on the system.

    “This makes an exclusive focus on trust, rather than healthy scepticism and distrust, potentially dangerous, as a mismatch between actual and perceived trustworthiness can result in overtrust on the system.”
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    Interpretationreasoning
    § 4 Distrust as a separate dimension

    Distrust also has positive consequences and merits separate from those of trust.

    “In sum, although often connotated negatively, distrust also has positive consequences and merits separate from those of trust.”
    Quote in the paperSubstantial claim
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    Premisecitation
    § 4 Distrust as a separate dimension

    Trust is characterized by hope, faith, or assurance, and distrust by scepticism, fear, suspicion or vigilance.

    “Among others, trust is characterized by hope, faith, or assurance, and distrust by scepticism, fear, suspicion or vigilance (Benamati et al., 2006;Cho, 2006;Lewicki et al., 1998).”
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    • cites Cho, 2006 source
    • cites Lewicki et al., 1998 source
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    § 2 Trust in AI

    Trust is dynamic and can increase or decrease during interactions.

    “Trust is dynamic and can increase or decrease during interactions (Y.Guo & Yang, 2021;Glikson & Woolley, 2020;R. R. Hoffman et al., 2009).”
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    • cites Y.Guo & Yang, 2021 source

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    • cites Glikson & Woolley, 2020 source
    • cites R. R. Hoffman et al., 2009 source
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    Premisecitation
    § 5 Perceived versus actual trustworthiness

    HCI and human-centric evaluation can contribute to solving XAI algorithms and applications' limitations.

    “As explainability is an inherently human-centric property (Lopes, Silva, Braga, Oliveira, & Rosado, 2022), (Mohseni et al., 2021) and (Liao & Varshney, 2021) believe that HCI and human-centric evaluation can contribute to solving XAI algorithms and applications' limitations.”
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    • cites Liao & Varshney, 2021

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    Premisecitation
    § 7.1 Factors of trust

    Of the factors that have been studied, there is a relatively robust picture of which individual antecedents are effective at predicting trust and which are not, but there is a lack of empirical research for many other factors.

    “Of the ones that have been studied there is a relatively robust picture of which individual antecedents are effective at predicting trust and which are not, however there is a lack of empirical research for many of the other factors (Kaplan et al., 2023).”
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    • cites Kaplan et al., 2023 source
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    Interpretationcitation
    § 7.3 Evaluation & trust measurement

    Reverse scoring distrust items and summing them with trust items entails a problematic entanglement of the two factors identified by Spain et al. (2008) and disregards the incremental insight by measuring trust and distrust individually.

    “Reverse scoring distrust items to then sum with the trust items entails a problematic entanglement of the two factors identified by Spain et al. (2008) and disregards the incremental insight by measuring trust and distrust individually.”
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    • cites Spain et al. (2008) source
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    Interpretationcitation
    § 7.3 Evaluation & trust measurement

    The Rusk scale is developed for the context of information systems and might be applicable to the (X)AI context as well.

    “The scale is developed for the context of information systems and might be applicable to the (X)AI context as well.”
    Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim
  • Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.

    Premisecitation
    § 7.1 Factors of trust

    In this paper, the factors influencing trust are categorized as related to the human, the AI, and the context.

    “In this paper we use a categorization of the factors influencing trust similar to the one used by Kaplan et al. (2023).These factors are related to the human, the AI, and the context (Kaplan et al., 2023).”
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    • cites Kaplan et al., 2023 source
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    Premisecitation
    § 7.3 Evaluation & trust measurement

    Kohn et al. (2021) highlight that researchers either state that they developed their own way of measuring trust, or they do not cite any source for their method.

    “Kohn et al. (2021) highlight that researchers either state that they developed their own way of measuring trust, or they do not cite any source for their method.”
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    Premisenone given
    § 7.3 Evaluation & trust measurement

    Single item measures are usually less reliable than multiple items and narrow down the complex concept of trust to a single (dis)agreement.

    “Despite the advantage in efficiency of single item measures, they are usually less reliable than multiple items and narrow down the complex concept of trust to a single (dis)agreement.”
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    Premisecitation
    § 7.3 Evaluation & trust measurement

    In one study, the approach of distinguishing appropriate trust, undertrust and overtrust allowed observation that feature importance and feature contribution slightly increased appropriate trust, decreased undertrust, and that for feature importance this came at the cost of a slight increase in overtrust.

    “For instance in one study, this approach allowed to observe that feature importance and feature contribution slightly increased appropriate trust, decreased their undertrust, and that, for feature importance, this came at the cost of a slight increase in overtrust (Wang & Yin, 2022).”
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    § 7.3 Evaluation & trust measurement

    The Checklist for Trust between People and Automation measures trust and distrust as polar opposites along a single dimension.

    “This checklist measures trust and distrust as polar opposites along a single dimension.”
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    Premisecitation
    § 7.1 Factors of trust

    Demographic factors such as gender, age, or culture and cultural aspects such as individualism and power relations within a culture can impact a person's propensity to trust an AI system.

    “Additionally, demographics factors such as gender, age, or culture (Hoff & Bashir, 2015) and various cultural aspects such as individualism and power relations within a culture can impact a person's propensity to trust an AI system (Chien, Lewis, Hergeth, Semnani-Azad, & Sycara, 2015;Chien, Lewis, & Sycara, 2016).”
    Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim0 of 3 sources checked
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    Premisecitation
    § 7.1 Factors of trust

    Novice (non-expert) users suffer from over-reliance due to their lack of knowledge, which results in their inability to properly detect errors.

    “Furthermore, (Mahsan Nourani, 2020) observe that novice (non-expert) users suffer from over-reliance due to their lack of knowledge which results in their inability to properly detect errors.”
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    Interpretationcitation
    § 7.3 Evaluation & trust measurement

    Consistent and standardized items would allow researchers to develop a better understanding of trust and distrust.

    “Consistent and standardized items would allow researchers to develop a better understanding of trust and distrust (Rusk, 2018).”
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    Premisecitation
    § Model descriptors

    Along with the explanations' content, the presentation of this information also has an impact on the user.

    “Along with the explanations' content (i.e.used descriptors) the presentation of this information also has an impact on the user (Hoff & Bashir, 2015).”
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    • cites Hoff & Bashir, 2015 source
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    § 7.3 Evaluation & trust measurement

    Kohn et al. (2021) note that notwithstanding evidence for the two-dimensional conceptualisation, uni-dimensional scales are the common form for assessing trust in automation.

    “Kohn et al. (2021) note, however, that notwithstanding the evidence for the two-dimensional conceptualisation, uni-dimensional scales are the common form for assessing trust in automation (Kohn et al., 2021).”
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    Premisecitation
    § 7.1 Factors of trust

    The first models on trust stem from social sciences, including organisational science and psychology, and are concerned with interpersonal trust.

    “The first of these models on trust (Kee & Knox, 1970;R. C. Mayer et al., 1995b;Dietz & Hartog, 2006) stem from social sciences, including organisational science and psychology, and are concerned with interpersonal trust.”
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    § 7.1 Factors of trust

    A person's personality (disposition to trust) and ability are of concern for trust.

    “A person's personality (disposition to trust) (Siau & Wang, 2018;Hoff & Bashir, 2015) and ability are of concern (Siau & Wang, 2018).”
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    Interpretationreasoning
    § Model descriptors

    Given the complexity of model behavior, it can be challenging to design realistic studies using the Wizard of Oz method.

    “Additionally, given the complexity of model behavior, it can be challenging to design realistic studies using this method.”
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    Premisecitation
    § 7.3 Evaluation & trust measurement

    A study on website design showed that trust and distrust are affected by different antecedents, and the performance of a trust-aware recommender system was improved by predicting not only trust but also distrust.

    “A study on website design showed that trust and distrust are affected by different antecedents, and the performance of a trust-aware recommender system was improved by predicting not only trust but also distrust (Fang et al., 2015).”
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    § 7.3 Evaluation & trust measurement

    A difference between dispositional trust and dispositional distrust was observed in the context of online expert advice.

    “A difference between dispositional trust and dispositional distrust was observed in the context of online expert advice (McKnight et al., 2004)”
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    Premisecitation
    § 7.1 Factors of trust

    The interactive effects between the antecedents of trust have been largely unexplored.

    “Additionally, the interactive effects between the antecedents of trust have been largely unexplored (Kaplan et al., 2023).”
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    § 7.3 Evaluation & trust measurement

    In a critical validation attempt by Spain et al. (2008), a one-factor model and a two-factor model were compared.

    “In a critical validation attempt of this scale by Spain et al. (2008), a one-factor model (indicating the polar opposites along a single dimension) and a two-factor model were compared.”
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    § 7.1 Factors of trust

    While domain expertise does impact user trust, domain expertise alone cannot fully predict people's trust in a model because expectations and personal experiences play a significant role.

    “However, while domain expertise does impact user trust (Ooge & Verbert, 2021) observe that as expectations and personal experiences play a significant role, domain expertise alone cannot fully predict people's trust in a model.”
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    § 7.1 Factors of trust

    Domain experts are capable of dynamically adjusting the perceived trustworthiness of an AI model by using its explanations.

    “Domain experts are capable of dynamically adjusting the perceived trustworthiness of an AI model by using its explanations (Mahsan Nourani, 2020).”
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    Interpretationnone given
    § 8 Open questions & recommendations

    There is an important difference between studying whether a XAI method affects the user's trust in a single interaction and whether it affects the general attitude in AI.

    “There is an important difference between studying whether a XAI method affects the user's trust in a single interaction and whether it affects the general attitude in AI, which should not be mixed.”
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  • Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.

    Interpretationreasoning
    § 8 Open questions & recommendations

    Depending on the risk, unwarranted trust or unwarranted distrust can be problematic in different ways.

    “Depending on the risk, unwarranted trust or unwarranted distrust can be problematic in different ways.”
    Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim
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    Interpretationreasoning
    § 8 Open questions & recommendations

    Because explanations help identify both correct and wrong outputs, XAI methods may affect both the user's trust and distrust.

    “Because explanations help identify both correct and wrong outputs, XAI methods may affect both the user's trust and distrust.”
    Quote in the paperSubstantial claim
    • Rests on an assumption: Explanations help identify both correct and wrong outputs.
  • Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.

    Interpretationreasoning
    § 8 Open questions & recommendations

    The application domain and the entailed risk may inform which reliance problem (disuse or overtrust) is more important.

    “The application domain and the entailed risk may inform which reliance problem (disuse or overtrust) is more important.”
    Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim
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  • The authors state this as an assumption.

    The separation of trust and distrust might help solve the conceptual issue of appropriate reliance.

    “We assume that this separation of trust and distrust might help solving the conceptual issue and propose that we need an understanding of both trust and distrust.”
  • The paper relies on this without support.

    Contemporary ML models are imperfect.

    “Yet considering the imperfection of contemporary ML models, distrust towards erroneous predictions and towards explanations that indicate them is not to be avoided, but fostered.”
  • The paper relies on this without support.

    The current understanding of user trust is limited.

    “This is even more of a problem as the current understanding of user trust is limited.”
  • The paper relies on this without support.

    Indirect stakeholders are affected by the outcomes of AI.

    “These indirect stakeholders are affected by the outcomes of AI and it may, therefore, be important to also study their perceptions of and views on AI systems.”
  • The paper relies on this without support.

    In empirical research, the calibration of user trust and distrust has two primary objectives: achieving appropriate reliance and improving task performance.

    “In empirical research the calibration of user trust and distrust has two primary objectives: achieving appropriate reliance and improving task performance.”
  • The paper relies on this without support.

    There are factors directly influenced within human-AI interaction and other confounding factors not influenced by AI system design that may impact whether and to what degree a user distrusts or trusts the system.

    “There are factors that are directly influenced within the human-AI interaction and other, potentially confounding, factors that are not influenced by the AI system and its design directly, but that may impact whether and to what degree a user (dis)trusts the system.”
  • The paper relies on this without support.

    The user itself can have an impact on the human-AI system interaction and how user trust develops.

    “Factors related to the user The user itself can also have an impact on the human-AI system interaction and how user trust develops.”
  • The paper relies on this without support.

    Explanations help identify both correct and wrong outputs.

    “Because explanations help identify both correct and wrong outputs, XAI methods may affect both the user's trust and distrust.”
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Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

Each contradiction between two passages listed here was confirmed by an independent check.

  • Linder et al. has conflicting behavioral-measurement entries

    Minor

    Table 3 leaves the behavioral trust-measurement cell empty for Linder et al. (2021), but the measurement-outcomes listing records a behavioral measurement for that paper.

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Research works printed but not linked: 2

  1. Madsen, 2000, Measuring human-computer trust, vol. 53, 6
  2. McBride, 2010, Trust calibration for automated decision aids, Institute for Homeland Security Solutions, 1

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Authors
Visser, R., Peters, T. M., Scharlau, I., & Hammer, B.
Affiliations
  • Bielefeld University (DE)
  • Paderborn University (DE)
Corresponding author
Visser, Roel
Venue
Cognitive Systems Research
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2025-06
Volume
91
Pages
101357
ISSN
1389-0417 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4409859788
Cited by
58
References
177
Citations by year
2026: 46 · 2025: 11
FWCI
14.66
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Cognitive Systems Research (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Publikationen an der Universität Bielefeld (Universität Bielefeld) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
German Research Foundation (TRR 318/1 2021 \u2013 438445824)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Social Sciences › Human Factors and Ergonomics › Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
Keywords
user trust in AI, distrust, explainable AI, explainability, trustworthy AI, conceptualization of trust, human-AI interaction, user attitudes toward AI

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Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

A language model drew the claims from the paper on 2026-11-09, under version 3 of the claim definition (model deepseek-v4.1-flash, prompt extract-v3).

A second model labelled each claim on 2026-11-09 (model jev-1.13-20260917, definition revision gold-guideline-v0.2).

Cited sources are checked with a language model’s help (gpt-6-sol).

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

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