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Dealing with the Uncanny? Cultural Adaptation in Matt Reeves’s Vampire Movie Let Me In
American Studies in Scandinavia, 2016 The aim of this article is to examine cultural adaptation and uncanny potential in Matt Reeves’s vampire movie Let Me In (2010), which is an adaptation of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s vampire novel Låt den rätte komma in (2004) – in English translation, Let ...
Maria Holmgren Troy
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, 2009 Queer’s not just a queer word but belongs, if it belongs, to a queer time.i would like to think of that sentence as a tiny installation, a snow-flake of sound, around which one might take one or more queerturns, or sketch a few queer footnotes. There is, perhaps, a queertheory of the First sentence.
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Journal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies progress, AI agents arise as potential teammates in the workplace. This study explores how the visual representation of the AI agent as well as its conformity to traditional gender stereotypes affects the manifestation of uncanny valley effects in a workplace team context.
Agata Mirowska, Jbid Arsenyan
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Brésil(s)This article examines the presence of the uncanny in contemporary ecological fiction focusing on Morgana Kretzmann’s 2024 novel Água turva. In this work, the uncanny acts as a narrative spice, contributing to the establishment of oppositions and the ...
Gabriel S. Philipson, Ricardo Celestino
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Liberation Through Narration: A Novel Humanistic Framework to Address Body Dissatisfaction
The Journal of Humanistic Counseling, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Though body dissatisfaction is nuanced and pervasive, the magnitude of body dissatisfaction is undercut by essentialist conceptualizations of the body and medicalized metrics of wellness tied to disordered eating. Hence, there is a need for a contextualized and sustaining framework to address and promote healing from body dissatisfaction ...
Kim Hughes, Amber L. Pope
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Stimuli that resemble humans, but are not perfectly human-like, are disliked compared to distinctly human and nonhuman stimuli. Accounts of this Uncanny Valley effect often focus on how changes in human resemblance can evoke different emotional responses.
Anne E. Ferrey +2 more
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Should Dermatologists Recommend Direct‐to‐Consumer App‐Based Remote Diagnostics? An Ethical Analysis
JEADV Clinical Practice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Dermatology patients still face barriers in accessing timely specialist care. As direct‐to‐consumer (DTC) apps for remote dermatological diagnostics proliferate, guidance is lacking. While promising efficiency and efficacy, their clinical—and ethical—legitimacy is not yet well established.
Sonja Mathes +9 more
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Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research examines how AI role disclosure transparency—the consumers' subjective perception of how clearly and informatively an advertisement communicates the role that AI played in the ad creation process—influences consumer evaluation of AI‐generated ads via ad creation process credibility. A high level of perceived transparency enhances
Khanh Bao Quang Le +3 more
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AI Cracks Jokes: Building Consumer–Brand Closeness Through Machine‐Generated Humor
Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Integrating AI led social cues into service encounters has become a key strategy for humanizing technology. Grounded in Social Penetration Theory, this research examines how AI‐generated humor styles (affiliative vs. self‐defeating) influence consumer brand identification and proposes consumer personality as a key moderator.
Heng Chu +3 more
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Artificial Voices, Real Causes: The Dilemma of Virtual Influencer‐Driven Brand Activism
Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Brands are more frequently adopting virtual influencers (VIs) to lead activism campaigns. However, little is known about when and how such activism effectively drives consumer engagement. This research, in Study 1, examines 14,464 Instagram posts from 18 diverse VIs using large‐scale analytics to assess engagement intensity and the dynamics of
Sampa Anupurba Pahi +4 more
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