About the Authors

Sophie Trawalter

strawalter@virginia.edu

Affiliations Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Kelly M. Hoffman

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Adam Waytz

Affiliation Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ST KH AW. Performed the experiments: ST KH. Analyzed the data: ST KH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ST KH AW. Wrote the paper: ST KH AW.