Chikamatsu, Mori, and the uncanny valley by Karl F. MacDorman

“…For Mori, only humanoid robots evoke affinity without risking uncanniness. By exploring anthropomorphism, both Chikamatsu and Mori illuminate principles for designing robots that do not unsettle but delight.…”
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Structural Design and Kinematic Analysis of a 10-DOF Exoskeleton Rehabilitation Robot by Guoqiang Ge, Weifeng Zhang, Jinghan Li, Hui Wang

“…Aiming at the problems of single function of upper limb exoskeleton rehabilitation robots， low degree of anthropomorphism and inconvenient interchange of contralateral sides， and based on human anatomy， a ten-degree-of-freedom （10-DOF） exoskeleton rehabilitation robot is modularly designed. …”
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De l’autre côté de la barrière. Franchir la frontière entre l’homme et l’animal avec le Roman de Renart by Anthony Revelle

“…I depart from the Roman de Renart, an Old French romance staging a gallery of anthropomorphized animals evolving alternatively through wilderness and domesticated spaces, while they constantly switch between human and bestial features and behaviors. …”
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Two distinct neural pathways for mechanical versus digital technology by Giovanni Federico, Mathieu Lesourd, Arnaud Fournel, Alexandre Bluet, Chloé Bryche, Maximilien Metaireau, Dario Baldi, Maria Antonella Brandimonte, Andrea Soricelli, Yves Rossetti, François Osiurak

“…A second behavioral experiment showed a pronounced tendency to anthropomorphize digital tools. A third experiment involving a priming task confirmed that digital tools activate the social brain. …”
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ANIMALS IN ADVERTISING (LITERATURE REVIEW) by Yuliya V. Massalskaya, Anastasiya V. Nikolaeva

“…Among them are marketing (increasing sales, saving the budget of the advertising campaign, attracting a new audience), symbolism (the animal is the embodiment of certain qualities), humanism (evoking of a humane attitude to animals), naturalism (animals are shown in their natural habitat), anthropomorphism (the animal is endowed with human characteristics). …”
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‘Solving the problem of reality’ in Virginia Woolf’s Flush by Pauline Macadré

“…Flush’s main character, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s spaniel, can be seen as the epitome of Victorianism, an embodiment of its tradition of anthropomorphism and a displaced portrait of his mistress, but it is also the pretext for a modernist reconstruction of Victorian society, towards a new literary (re)presentation of the sensorial world. …”
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The Role of European Equestrian Institutions in Training Professionals: Outcomes from a Workshop on Horse Welfare in Equestrian Education by Gabriella Torell Palmquist, Nina Känsälä Alveheim, François Huot-Marchand, Lisa Ashton, Victoria Lewis

“…Key challenges, such as anthropomorphism, varying standards across disciplines and countries, and the evolving horse–human relationship, pose risks to the social license to operate. …”
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Alchohol Consumption Practices in the Koryak Community by Lyudmila N. Khakhovskaya

“…The visual materiality of the amanita mushroom dictated its symbolic anthropomorphism and creation of special rules for the treatment (amanita codex). …”
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The Story of a Thing: A Frame-Analytic Perspective on a Biographical Approach to Materiality by U. S. Semovskikh, D. R. Davletov

“…Among their shortcomings is the anthropomorphizing of the biography of an object, which leads to linearity and the desire to establish the beginning and end of its ‘life’. …”
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Toy preferences among 3-to-4-year-old children: The impact of socio-demographic factors and developmental characteristics by Nikolay N. Veresov, Margarita N. Gavrilova, Vera L. Sukhikh

“…This study proposed three criteria for categorizing toys based on the cultural-historical approach: their degree of realism; their degree of anthropomorphism; and their degree of detail. These criteria were chosen as a result of an analysis of theoretical works carried out in the framework of cultural-historical approach. …”
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CRISIS OF PEDAGOGICAL CULTURE AND SOME PROBLEMS OF THE MODERN PEDAGOGICAL THOUGHT by R. M. Asadullin, O. V. Frolov

“…The pedagogical culture of the teacher is characterized as the anthropomorphous practice which is putting forward a Person as the leading carrier of content of education and the main value. …”
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Language learners’ surface, deep, and organizing approaches to ChatGPT-assisted language learning: What contextual, individual, and ChatGPT-related factors contribute? by Amir Reza Rahimi, Zahra Mosalli

“…Additionally, personalization and anthropomorphism were among the significant ChatGPT-related factors that shaped learners’ deep approach to using ChatGPT as a source for meaningful, cross-referenced CALL tool. …”
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The Efficacy of Conversational AI in Rectifying the Theory-of-Mind and Autonomy Biases: Comparative Analysis by Marcin Rządeczka, Anna Sterna, Julia Stolińska, Paulina Kaczyńska, Marcin Moskalewicz

“…The cognitive biases assessed included theory-of-mind biases (anthropomorphism, overtrust, and attribution) and autonomy biases (illusion of control, fundamental attribution error, and just-world hypothesis). …”
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30 Years of Research in Brand Personality: Mapping Knowledge and Analyzing the Thematic Structure by a Scientometrics Approach by Mohammad Rahim Esfidani, Mohsen Nazari, Shahriar Gharibzadeh, Nakisa Rezaie

“…Fourth, a wide range of theoretical frameworks have been applied to study brand personality, including social identity theory, self-congruity theory, and brand anthropomorphism. Additionally, a scientometric analysis was conducted, including co-occurrence analysis, co-citation analysis, and thematic analysis of the brand personality field using VOSviewer © software and the Bibliometrix R tool. …”
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