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 ...

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

People like attributing human characteristics to non-human beings and things. We’ve been doing it since we first started depicting gods in our own image. In a new study, published in the journal ...

"For the longest time, science has depicted animals as stimulus-response machines while declaring their inner lives barren. This has helped us sustain our customary 'anthropodenial': the denial that ...

I recently gave a talk to an audience of scientists and university professors during which I referred to the "personality" of dogs and the fact that dogs can experience emotions such as love and ...

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 ...