Autistic traits and loneliness in autism are associated with increased tendencies to anthropomorphise
Anthropomorphism—the attribution of human qualities to non-human objects—is believed to be a natural tendency which may serve several adaptive functions. One possibility is that anthropomorphism provides an egocentric heuristic by which we can understand the world. It may also be a strategy for redu...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
2021
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