I trust it, but I don't know why: effects of implicit attitudes toward automation on trust in an automated system.

Objective: This study is the first to examine the influence of implicit attitudes toward automation on users' trust in automation.

Background: Past empirical work has examined explicit (conscious) influences on user level of trust in automation but has not yet measured implicit influences. We examine concurrent effects of explicit propensity to trust machines and implicit attitudes toward automation on trust in an automated system.