Faces in the Clouds

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“Meant to be”: how religious beliefs and cultural religiosity affect the implicit bias to think teleologically (2014, background): “…through numerous approaches that people are cognitively predisposed to believe in supernatural agents (Barrett, 2004; Bering, 2006; Boyer, 2001; Guthrie, 1993; McCauley, 2000), which leads individuals to find religious explanations intuitively appealing and psychologically seductive…”
The Uncanny Valley: Existence and Explanations (2015, background): “The authors argued that face form detection may endow people with an evolutionary advantage in perceiving faces in everyday objects (Guthrie, 1993), because false alarms resulting from the misidentification of a falling rock as a predator are associated with higher long-term fitness than misses resu”
Saving Mr. Nature: Anthropomorphism enhances connectedness to and protectiveness toward nature (2013, background): “These cases illustrate anthropomorphism—the assignment of human characteristics to nonhuman entities (Epley, Waytz, & Cacioppo, 2007; Guthrie, 1993; Kwan & Fiske, 2008).”
Consumers’ identification with corporate brands: Brand prestige, anthropomorphism and engagement in social media (2017, background): “The term anthropomorphism derives from Greek words ánthropo-s (human) and morfe- (form) and is defined as a cognitive process of “attribution of human characteristics to nonhuman things or events” (Guthrie, 1993, p. 3).”