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Dispositional Trust and Distrust Distinctions in Predicting High- and Low-Risk Internet Expert Advice Site Perceptions
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This study examines whether some types of dispositional trust/distrust concepts are better than other types at inducing consumers to trust a Web advice provider. We propose and test a model in which dispositional trust and distrust concepts are given separate roles. This unique approach is based on the growing, but untested theoretical consensus that trust and distrust are separate concepts that co-exist yet differ in terms of their emotional makeup. While trust concepts tend to be calm and collected, distrust concepts embody significant levels of fear and insecurity. Based on this difference, we propose that dispositional distrust concepts will be better predictors of high-risk Internet legal advice site perceptions, while the corresponding trust concepts will be better predictors of low-risk Internet legal advice site perceptions. As proposed, the study finds that dispositional trust better predicts low-risk perceptions, while dispositional distrust better predicts high-risk perceptions. For e-commerce advice site research, the findings of this article suggest that perhaps scholars should Not only study dispositional trust but also dispositional distrust.
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The disposition to distrust predicted high-risk perceptions better than the disposition to trust did.
“In a study by McKnight, Kacmar, and Choudhury (2004) the disposition to distrust predicted high-risk perceptions better than the disposition to trust did.”
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 McKnight, Kacmar, and Choudhury (2004)
Examples identifying the merit of considering trust and distrust as separate dimensions can be found across different subfields of human-technology interaction.
“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).”
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 McKnight et al., 2004
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)”
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 McKnight et al., 2004
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- Authors
- McKnight, Kacmar, & Choudhury
- Venue
- e-Service Journal
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Published
- 2004
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 35
- ISSN
- 1528-8226
- Cited by
- 230
- References
- 10
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