anthropomorphism

And Hall, usually so merry, could outfoot them all when he once got started on the cosmic pathos of religion and the gibbering anthropomorphisms of those who loved not to die.

Among their topics are posthuman from the beginning: how animal stories for children shape the anthropocentric worldview, from a dog's eye view: negotiating anthropomorphism and anamorphosis in Eva Hornung's Dog Boy (2009) and John Berger's King: A Street Story (1999), and critical posthumanism and cloning in Kauo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and Caryl Churchill's A Number.

There may be some amount of anthropomorphism attached to the idea that dogs would like an iced drink as we would on a hot day, we really have no idea if our dogs are thinking similarly to us or not.

(32) One reason for this imbalance of fiction to reality will be discussed later in Challenge 3: Anthropomorphism.

Not for much longer, anyway." Yet, at no time does Laukkanen stoop to anthropomorphism. Lucy is a dog -- a great dog -- but also a dog, making "Deception Cove" even more rich in its storytelling.

They call this anthropomorphism, and they discourage it.

The goal is to apply valid, quantitative scientific methods to identify what training techniques are ineffective or painful, and to improve the horse-rider relationship by explaining horse training from a learning theory perspective that removes anthropomorphism and emotiveness.

Grahame, I always thought, was the master of anthropomorphism, simply because he had clearly got to know the real characters of the creatures he would transmogrify into human characters.

Synopsis: Furry fandom is a recent phenomenon, but anthropomorphism is an instinct hard-wired into the human mind: the desire to see animals on a more equal footing with people.

"As much as I'd like to have robot patients that lie on my couch for a dose of high-tech therapy, the reality is that this is a prime example of anthropomorphism - humans attributing emotions to a physical object.

It also helps in understanding symbolism through animals, anthropomorphism and animal metaphors for future researchers.