People talk to their plants, pray to human-like gods, name their cars, and even dress their pets up in clothing. We have a strong tendency to give nonhuman entities human characteristics (known as ...

I'm pretty sure there's a mistake here. Rockstar's claiming Grand Theft Auto V -- my review is here -- was the best-selling game of 2013, but that can't be right, because consoles are dead: subverted ...

Have you ever assigned personalities to your pets and explained their behaviors in terms of human motivations, such as imagining that a cat is being stubborn? The attribution of human characteristics, ...

People talk to their plants, pray to humanlike gods, name their cars, and even dress their pets up in clothing. We have a strong tendency to give non-human entities human characteristics (known as ...

As someone who has studied and written about the cognitive and emotional lives of nonhuman animals (animals) for many decades, I've read various accounts about the good, the bad, and the ugly of ...

Anthropomorphism is the tendency to attribute human emotions, intentions, or behaviours to non-human entities. This psychological habit leads people to relate to machines, animals, or objects as if ...