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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Legal Studies
  • Social Cognition

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  • The legal and public debate surrounding corporate personhood is ongoing.
  • Understanding public perception of corporations as persons is crucial for legal and ethical considerations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how ordinary citizens conceptualize corporations as persons.
  • To identify factors influencing the degree to which corporations are anthropomorphized.
  • To examine the consequences of corporate anthropomorphism on support for legal rights.

Main Methods:

  • Empirical studies involving citizen perception surveys.
  • Comparative analysis of corporations against other entities (e.g., animals).
  • Regression analysis to identify predictors of corporate personhood perception.

Main Results:

  • Corporations are anthropomorphized, but to a limited extent, comparable to ants.
  • Perceptions of corporate mental and moral traits significantly predict the willingness to grant personhood.
  • Anthropomorphism increases support for granting legal rights and responsibilities to corporations.

Conclusions:

  • Perceptions of corporate personhood are rooted in a general framework for assessing an entity's personhood, also applied to animals.
  • The degree of anthropomorphism is contingent on the salience of an organization's human-like traits.
  • Findings have implications for legal personhood debates and understanding social cognition.