Revisiting the Effect of Anthropomorphizing a Social Cause Campaign.

Recent research suggests that anthropomorphism can be harnessed as a tool to boost intentions to comply with social cause campaigns. Drawing on the human tendency to extend moral concern to entities portrayed as humanlike, it has been argued that adding personified features to a social campaign elev...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lisa A Williams, Barbara Masser, Jessie Sun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4583222?pdf=render