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 ...

It is a universal tendency to assign or impute human emotional, cognitive, and behavioral qualities to nonhuman creatures and things. Owls are “wise.” Swollen rivers are “raging” and “angry.” ...

After remaining closed for nearly two years, Houghton Library premiered its exhibition “Animals Are Us” — which explores the use of animal anthropomorphism in literature — to the public this semester.

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 ...

It’s a hard life for the adorable boy and girl cubs who co-star with their mom in Disney’s “Bears.” One falls asleep on a sandbar only to wake up surrounded by water at high tide and is later nearly ...

Take a class in animal behavior and you’ll probably receive a warning: Beware of anthropomorphism. Explaining animals in terms of human motivations, emotions, or mental characteristics invites ...

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 ...

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 ...

We have a strong tendency to give nonhuman entities human characteristics, known as anthropomorphism. Now, a new report has examined the psychology behind it. In Current Directions in Psychological ...