Giving human traits to animals and objects, known as anthropomorphism, is a common practice in storytelling and advertising.

As humans, we love projecting our emotions on non-human things like animals, objects and weather events. I’m told the psychological term for this is anthropomorphism, which is difficult to say three ...

I recently gave a talk to an audience of scientists and university professors during which I referred to the "personality" of dogs and the fact that dogs can experience emotions such as love and ...

People like attributing human characteristics to non-human beings and things. We’ve been doing it since we first started depicting gods in our own image. In a new study, published in the journal ...

This post is in response to When Animals Wear Pants: Anthropomorphism and Learning By Boby Ho-Hong Ching Ph.D. I have learned that anthropomorphism is a deeply suspect word, used to defend cruelty to ...

Do animals feel love, anger, or empathy? Researchers have long dismissed such ideas as anthropomorphism, arguing that attributing human emotions to animals was unscientific.

Frontier is an international non-profit volunteering NGO. Frontier is an international non-profit volunteering NGO. Let's start off slow: what is it? Anthropomorphism is the attribution of a human ...

Autumn begins tomorrow. Suffused already with a seasonal nostalgia, I'm replaying scenes of summer in my head. Among them is sitting in a dark theatre, watching apes clamber across San Francisco's ...

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I enjoyed Jamie Lafferty’s account of his five-day sledding trip with dogs in Finland (“The power of the dog”, Life & Arts, FT Weekend, January 22), but he really shouldn’t worry about ...