A generation raised on Siri and Alexa does not just use technology. It befriends it. That instinct has a name – and it is reshaping how the world builds and sells everything.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...