Before Darwin, the relationship of humans to the rest of creation was straightforward. Animals had instincts and habits: humans were blessed with rationality and language. Darwin’s recognition of the interrelatedness of all living things made this position untenable. Around the time of the publication of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, people began to use the term “anthropomo...

While anthropomorphism in human-robot interaction is often discussed, it still appears to lack formal grounds. We recently proposed a first model of the dynamics of anthropomorphism that reflects the evolution of anthropomorphism in the human-robot interaction over time. The model also accounts for non-monotonic effects like the so-called novelty effect. This contribution proposes to build upon...

Recent research suggests that anthropomorphism can be harnessed as a tool to boost intentions to comply with social cause campaigns. Drawing on the human tendency to extend moral concern to entities portrayed as humanlike, it has been argued that adding personified features to a social campaign elevates anticipated guilt at failing to comply, and this subsequently boosts intentions to comply wi...

Human-like machines are based on a purely intuitive anthropomorphic approach. In this framework, a theory of anthropomorphism could help for the analysis of the consequences made by the designer in his endeavor to mimic the human physiology. The paper aims to highlight the possibilities of the system theory in its application to a rigorous definition of anthropomorphism. Key-Words: Anthropomorp...

In its attempt to offer new ways into autonomy for a large population of disabled people, assistive technology has largely been inspired by robotics engineering. Recent human-like robots carry new hopes that it seems to us necessary to analyze by means of a specific theory of anthropomorphism. We propose to distinguish a functional anthropomorphism which is the one of actual wheelchairs from a ...

knowing god and relationship with him is one of the important theological issues in abraham`s religions. christianity believes that invisible god reflects in the incarnation of christ. in the christians` view, the jesus christ is the revelation of god. as a result, incarnation is one of the most important principles of christianity. the jews are opposed to incarnation but believe in anthropomor...

In a project designed to test how viewers evaluate and choose avatars to represent them online, viewers (N = 261) evaluated 92 potential avatars that varied along three dimensions – gender of the image, anthropomorphism (humanness), and realism (veridicality). Consistent with the predictions of information processing theory, results indicated that anthropomorphic qualities increased perceived r...

Most research examining individuals’ bidding behavior in online auctions has used the lens of a rational decision making process. However, bidding behavior is also influenced by non-rational factors. Anthropomorphism, attributing human characteristics to a non-human object, has been studied in many disciplines, but has not been investigated in online auctions. This study aims to identify whethe...

Anthropomorphism is a way of making sense of complex behavior in the world around us. It is not one process, but involves several – quite independent – levels, e.g., primitive psychology, folk-psychology, social stereotypes and emotional anthropomorphism. This paper explores psychological and anthropological research into the different layers in order to better understand anthropomorphic proces...

The usefulness of an approach in science is a difficult beast to capture. Attempts to quantify the fertility of anthropomorphism can quickly degenerate into something akin to a scientific beauty contest (at worst) or a matter of counting publications or citations of protagonists (at best). Blumberg asks “whether individuals who explicitly engage in anthropomorphism have a track record of scient...