With the development of social media, interactive activities such as anthropomorphic communications are more accessible and popular. The country-of-origin(COO) stereotype is one of the most important ...

It is a universal tendency to assign or impute human emotional, cognitive, and behavioral qualities to nonhuman creatures and things. Owls are “wise.” Swollen rivers are “raging” and “angry.” ...

As someone who has studied and written about the cognitive and emotional lives of nonhuman animals (animals) for many decades, I've read various accounts about the good, the bad, and the ugly of ...

The Idaho Potato Association (IPA) created a distinctive anthropomorphic brand identity symbol-“Mr. Spuddy Buddy” (Spuddy Buddy) - in the marketing of potatoes, thus presenting the brand image to ...