Rai, Tage S.; Diermeier, Daniel - In: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 126 (2015) C, pp. 18-26
Across four experiments, participants saw companies as capable of having ‘agentic’ mental states, such as having intentions, but incapable of having ‘experiential’ mental states, such as feeling pain. This difference in mental state ascription caused companies to elicit anger as...