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We are interested in ad hoc teams in which team members start to collaborate, often to respond to emergencies or short-term opportunities, without significant prior knowledge about each other. In this study, we use virtual ad hoc teams, consisting of a human and an agent, collaborating over a few episodes where each episode requires them to complete a set of tasks chosen from available task types. Team members are initially unaware of the capabilities of their partners for the available task types, and the agent task allocator must adapt the allocation process to maximize team performance. It is important in collaborative teams of humans and agents to establish user confidence and satisfaction, as well as to produce effective team performance. Explanations can increase user trust in agent team members and in team decisions. The focus of this paper is on analyzing how explanations of task allocation decisions can influence both user performance and the human workers\u2019 perspective, including factors such as motivation and satisfaction. We evaluate different types of explanation, such as positive, strength-based explanations and negative, weakness-based explanations, to understand (a) how satisfaction and performance are improved when explanations are presented, and (b) how factors such as confidence, understandability, motivation, and explanatory power correlate with satisfaction and performance. We run experiments on the CHATboard platform that allows virtual collaboration over multiple episodes of task assignments, with MTurk workers. 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