System-Wide Trust (SWT) Versus Component-Specific Trust (CST) in Multi-Agent Human–Agent Teams: Individual Variability in Trust BiasHyesun Chung, X. Jessie Yang1Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, 1259University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USAon June 24, 2026 at 1:21 am

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Human Factors, Ahead of Print.
BackgroundPrior work on trust in multi-component systems has proposed two competing perspectives: system-wide trust (SWT) versus component-specific trust (CST). SWT argues that individuals view multiple agent teammates as interconnected parts of a single “…