Overview: Details implications for areas in everyday functioning, such as interactions with people, animals, and objects, violence, and discrimination.Systematically investigates the motivations that underlie bPeople often see nonhuman agents as human-like. Through the processes of anthropomorphism and humanization, people attribute human characteristics, including personalities, free will, and agency to pets, cars, gods, nature, and the like. Similarly, there are some people who often see human agents as less than human, or more object-like. In this manner, objectification describes the tre
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