ReviewFrontiers in psychology2018
Anti-anthropomorphism and Its Limits.
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- Reader Responses to Online Reporting of Tagged Bird Behavior.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Narrative coherence in neural language models.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Ecology, ethology, and evolution in the Anthropocene.Biology open · 2024Article
- "It kinda has like a mind": Children's and parents' beliefs concerning viral disease transmission for COVID-19 and the common cold.Cognition · 2023Article
- Canadian dairy farmer views about animal welfare.Animal welfare (South Mimms, England) · 2023Article
- Perceptions of Fear and Anxiety in Horses as Reported in Interviews with Equine Behaviourists.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Anthropomorphizing Technology: A Conceptual Review of Anthropomorphism Research and How it Relates to Children's Engagements with Digital Voice Assistants.Integrative psychological & behavioral science · 2022Article
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Abstract
There is a diffuse sentiment that to anthropomorphize is a mild vice that people tend to do easily and pleasingly, but that an adult well educated person should avoid. In this paper it will be provided an elucidation of "anthropomorphism" in the field of common sense knowledge, the issue of animal rights, and about the use of humans as a model in the scientific explanation. It will be argued for a "constructive anthropomorphism," i.e., the idea that anthropomorphism is a natural attitude to attribute human psychological features to other individuals, no matter they are actually rational agents, or not. If we know the "grammar" of this attitude, we can avoid the risks in overestimatinasg the environmental inputs toward anthropomor-phism and, at the same time, take the heuristic advantages of anthropomor-phism in the use of human mind as a model for both everyday circumstances and scientific enterprise.
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