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Empathy, Anthropomorphism, and the Uncanny Valley Effect: Why Audiences Strayed Away from the Film Adaptation of Cats

, 2021
The 2019 film adaptation of the musical, Cats, was a box-office flop, unpopular with critics and audiences, and failing to recoup its production cost. The two major criticisms levelled at the film – its perceived lack of plot and unsuccessful animation –
Lesley Hawkes, Kate Cantrell, Cantrell, Kate, Hawkes, Lesley   +3 more
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Meta-Analysis of the Uncanny Valley

, 2023
This preregistration is for a meta-analysis of the uncanny valley. Our work explores the 1) impact of uncanny valley perceptions on affect, behavior, cognition, and opinion; 2) effect sizes of the theorized causes of the uncanny valley; and 3) mediation
William Weisman, Jorge Peña
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Walking in the Uncanny Valley: Importance of the Attractiveness on the Acceptance of a Robot as a Working Partner

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
The Uncanny valley theory, which tells us that almost-human characteristics in a robot or a device could cause uneasiness in human observers, is an important research theme in the Human Robot Interaction (HRI) field.
Matthieu eDestephe, Martim eBrandao, Tatsuhiro eKishi, Massimiliano eZecca, Kenji eHashimoto, Atsuo eTakanishi, Atsuo eTakanishi   +6 more
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Uncanny but not confusing: Multisite study of perceptual category confusion in the Uncanny Valley

, 2022
Android robots that are close, but imperfect, likenesses of humans can provoke negative feelings of dislike and eeriness in humans (“Uncanny Valley” effect).
Alice Geminiani, Peter Ruijten, Balazs Aczel, FRANCESCA LUNARDINI, David Reichling, Brandy Bessette-Symons, Maya Mathur, Alberto Antonietti, Carmel Levitan, Dylan Manfredi, Attila Szuts, Gideon Nave   +11 more
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Understanding the Uncanny: Both Atypical Features and Category Ambiguity Provoke Aversion toward Humanlike Robots

Frontiers in Psychology, 2017
Robots intended for social contexts are often designed with explicit humanlike attributes in order to facilitate their reception by (and communication with) people.
Megan K. Strait, Megan K. Strait, Victoria A. Floerke, Wendy Ju, Keith Maddox, Jessica D. Remedios, Malte F. Jung, Heather L. Urry   +7 more
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Macaque Gaze Responses to the Primatar: A Virtual Macaque Head for Social Cognition Research

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
Following the expanding use and applications of virtual reality in everyday life, realistic virtual stimuli are of increasing interest in cognitive studies.
Vanessa A. D. Wilson, Vanessa A. D. Wilson, Vanessa A. D. Wilson, Carolin Kade, Sebastian Moeller, Sebastian Moeller, Sebastian Moeller, Stefan Treue, Stefan Treue, Stefan Treue, Stefan Treue, Igor Kagan, Igor Kagan, Julia Fischer, Julia Fischer, Julia Fischer   +15 more
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Creepy, but Persuasive: In a Virtual Consultation, Physician Bedside Manner, Rather than the Uncanny Valley, Predicts Adherence

Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2021
Care for chronic disease requires patient adherence to treatment advice. Nonadherence worsens health outcomes and increases healthcare costs. When healthcare professionals are in short supply, a virtual physician could serve as a persuasive technology to
Zhengyan Dai, Karl F. MacDorman
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Stimulus-category competition, inhibition and affective devaluation: A novel account of the Uncanny Valley

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, Tyler J. Burleigh, Mark J. Fenske   +2 more
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Auditory traits of "own voice".

PLoS ONE, 2018
People perceive their recorded voice differently from their actively spoken voice. The uncanny valley theory proposes that as an object approaches humanlike characteristics, there is an increase in the sense of familiarity; however, eventually a point is
Marino Kimura, Yuko Yotsumoto
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The Uncanny Valley Theory and Application Towards Film and Animation [PDF]

, 2021
The 'Uncanny Valley' theory is an idea pioneered by Masahiro Mori in 1970 regarding the psychological effects of lifelike robotic (Mori, 1970). The definition of the uncanny valley implies that a humanoid target emerges in witnesses, and looks closely ...
Siti Nor Fatihah, Ismail
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