2 papers
cs.HC2025
People Perceive More Phantom Costs From Autonomous Agents When They Make Unreasonably Generous Offers
Benjamin Lebrun, Christoph Bartneck, David Kaber +1
People often reject offers that are too generous due to the perception of hidden drawbacks referred to as "phantom costs." We hypothesized that this perception and the decision-mak…
cs.HC2024
Too good to be true: People reject free gifts from robots because they infer bad intentions
Benjamin Lebrun, Andrew Vonasch, Christoph Bartneck
A recent psychology study found that people sometimes reject overly generous offers from people because they imagine hidden ''phantom costs'' must be part of the transaction. Phant…