Would you forgive anthropomorphic conversational AI agents for service failures? Exploring the impact of anthropomorphism on customer forgiveness

Yuguang Xie et al.

Electronic Markets2026https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-026-00884-1article
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  title        = {{Would you forgive anthropomorphic conversational AI agents for service failures? Exploring the impact of anthropomorphism on customer forgiveness}},
  author       = {Yuguang Xie et al.},
  journal      = {Electronic Markets},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-026-00884-1},
}

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