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Children's animistic beliefs toward a humanoid robot and other objects.
Taniguchi K, Okanda M. Taniguchi K, et al. J Exp Child Psychol. 2024 May 9;244:105945. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2024.105945. Online ahead of print. J Exp Child Psychol. 2024. PMID: 38729060
Thus, children may start believing that robots are not alive at age five, and they can distinguish them from other objects even when the latter have faces. Developmental changes in children's animistic beliefs are also discussed....
Thus, children may start believing that robots are not alive at age five, and they can distinguish them from other objects even when the lat …
Alienation, recovered animism and altered states of consciousness.
Charlton BG. Charlton BG. Med Hypotheses. 2007;68(4):727-31. doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.11.004. Epub 2006 Dec 4. Med Hypotheses. 2007. PMID: 17141965
Animism is therefore spontaneous, the 'natural' way of thinking for humans: all humans began as animistic children and for most of human evolutionary history would have grown into animistic adults. It requires sustained, prolonged and pervasive formal education to ' …
Animism is therefore spontaneous, the 'natural' way of thinking for humans: all humans began as animistic children and for most of hu …
Animistic thinking in psychotic versus conduct-disordered hospitalized adolescents.
Atlas JA, Miller AL, Arsenio WF. Atlas JA, et al. Psychol Rep. 1993 Oct;73(2):611-4. doi: 10.2466/pr0.1993.73.2.611. Psychol Rep. 1993. PMID: 8234613
Consistent with expectations from earlier research, the psychotic adolescents showed greater modes of animistic thinking (attributions of life to nonlife forms) than conduct-disordered youth, associated with theorized merging between self and the nonhuman environment. ...
Consistent with expectations from earlier research, the psychotic adolescents showed greater modes of animistic thinking (attribution …
Animating Brains.
Borck C. Borck C. Med Hist. 2016 Jul;60(3):308-24. doi: 10.1017/mdh.2016.25. Med Hist. 2016. PMID: 27292322 Free PMC article.
This Special Issue invites us to take this claim as the starting point for a cross-cultural analysis: in which meaningful ways can recent research in the burgeoning field of functional imaging be described as, contrasted with, or simply compared to animistic practices? And …
This Special Issue invites us to take this claim as the starting point for a cross-cultural analysis: in which meaningful ways can recent re …
Animistic pragmatism and native ways of knowing: adaptive strategies for overcoming the struggle for food in the sub-Arctic.
Anthony R. Anthony R. Int J Circumpolar Health. 2013 Aug 5;72. doi: 10.3402/ijch.v72i0.21224. eCollection 2013. Int J Circumpolar Health. 2013. PMID: 23986900 Free PMC article.
BACKGROUND: Subsistence norms are part of the "ecosophy" or ecological philosophy of Alaska Native Peoples in the sub-Arctic, such as the Inupiat of Seward Peninsula. This kind of animistic pragmatism is a special source of practical wisdom that spans over thousands of yea …
BACKGROUND: Subsistence norms are part of the "ecosophy" or ecological philosophy of Alaska Native Peoples in the sub-Arctic, such as the In …
Animistic thought in civilized adults.
Brown LB, Thouless RH. Brown LB, et al. J Genet Psychol. 1965 Sep;107(1st Half):33-42. doi: 10.1080/00221325.1965.10532760. J Genet Psychol. 1965. PMID: 4157523 No abstract available.
Running amok.
Schmidt K, Hill L, Guthrie G. Schmidt K, et al. Int J Soc Psychiatry. 1977;23(4):264-74. doi: 10.1177/002076407702300405. Int J Soc Psychiatry. 1977. PMID: 608813
No differences were found according to religion, the Malay being Muslim and the other groups either predominantly Christian like the Iban or animistic. Only slight diminution in the frequency was observed from 1954 to 1968. ...
No differences were found according to religion, the Malay being Muslim and the other groups either predominantly Christian like the Iban or …
Concepts of God and Germs: Social Mechanisms and Cognitive Heuristics.
Saide A, Richert R. Saide A, et al. Cogn Sci. 2021 May;45(5):e12942. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12942. Cogn Sci. 2021. PMID: 34018226 Free article.
Previous research has shown that the more individuals view observable entities as animate, the more those entities are associated with having psychological and physiological experiences. This study examined the relationship between children's animistic and anthropomorphic …
Previous research has shown that the more individuals view observable entities as animate, the more those entities are associated with havin …
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