Sympathy for objects and its influence on impressions

Do people sympathize with objects of low value?

Abstract

We used a psychological experiment to study whether objects that does not have any living-like characteristics evoke sympathy when they are given a low value, and whether sympathy induces a positive impression. In the experiment, participants were asked to evaluate their impressions of abstractly shaped objects that were given different value. The results showed statistically that the low-value group was more likely to receive sympathy than the high-value group. However, we could not verify whether the sympathy produced positive impressions.