I'm pretty sure there's a mistake here. Rockstar's claiming Grand Theft Auto V -- my review is here -- was the best-selling game of 2013, but that can't be right, because consoles are dead: subverted ...

Have you ever assigned personalities to your pets and explained their behaviors in terms of human motivations, such as imagining that a cat is being stubborn? The attribution of human characteristics, ...

Anthropocentrism is the idea that humans are the most significant or central entities on Earth. The word in English derives from two in Ancient Greek; anthrōpos is "human being" and kéntron is “center ...

Clive Wynne misrepresented my published views in his Concepts essay “The perils of anthropomorphism” (Nature 428, 606; 2004). The concept of ‘critical anthropomorphism’ helps to establish ground rules ...

People talk to their plants, pray to humanlike gods, name their cars, and even dress their pets up in clothing. We have a strong tendency to give non-human entities human characteristics (known as ...