From “Corporate Insecthood,” a study conducted by Nina Strohminger and Matthew Jordan, which will be published next month in Cognition. Participants were asked to rank various corporations and organizations on a spectrum equating levels of personhood with objects and organisms, the highest level being that of a human.
Pfizer : houseplant
Johnson & Johnson : shark
Microsoft : microbe
Exxon : computer
Walmart : tree
Amazon : ant
NRA : fish
Disney : bird
Teach For America: elephant
Doctors Without Borders: dolphin
ACLU : corpse