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Haunted childhood in Charlotte Bronte's Villette [PDF]
, 2002 In Villette, the obvious fakeness of the phantom robs it of uncanny status, reducing it to a form of narrative decoy which deflects attention away from what are consistently described as unheimlich in the novel: children and childhood.
Armitt, Lucie
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Understanding Autistic Young Adults' Perceptions and Experiences of Traumatic and Stressful Events
Journal of Clinical Psychology, Volume 81, Issue 6, Page 445-461, June 2025.ABSTRACT Objectives The aim of this study was to explore how young autistic adults experience and respond to stressful life events, and the relationship between autistic characteristics and symptoms of stress associated with these events. Methods Using an exploratory sequential mixed‐methods approach, an online qualitative survey was first administered
Alliyza Lim, Robyn L. Young
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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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Twice-Two: Hegel’s Comic Redoubling of Being and Nothing [PDF]
, 2018 Following Freud’s analysis of the fragile line between the uncanny double and its comic redoubling, I identify the doubling of the double found in critical moments of Hegelian dialectic as producing a kind of comic effect.
Aumiller, Rachel
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JCPP Advances, EarlyView.Abstract Background Children with conduct problems often present with a range of complex needs and many factors have the potential to complicate the delivery of evidence‐based interventions for conduct problems. Little, however, is known about how to optimise the delivery of such interventions for complex cases, and there has been a lack of consensus ...
Jessica M. Barker, David J. Hawes
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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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Elements of the Dreamlike and the Uncanny in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled
Styles of Communication, 2010 This essay examines Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled in terms of an uncanny dream narrative. The Booker Prize winner’s most puzzling novel – with its frequent departures from realism – conjures up a unique logic combining the elements of the dreamlike and
Wojciech Drąg
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A motion system for social and animated robots [PDF]
, 2014 This paper presents an innovative motion system that is used to control the motions and animations of a social robot. The social robot Probo is used to study Human-Robot Interactions (HRI), with a special focus on Robot Assisted Therapy (RAT).
goris, Kristof +4 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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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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