APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
CEOs Imbue Companies with Feelings, Enabling Atonement for Corporate Wrongs
- Simone Tang
Duke University - Kurt Gray
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Abstract
Corporations have difficulty atoning for their sins because they seem incapable of feeling pain or suffering. However, people are more satisfied with punishment when corporations are represented by their CEOs or when the CEOs are salient, because CEOs imbue the corporations with feeling.
Social Cognition
