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Humanish: How Anthropomorphism Makes Us Smart, Weird and Delusional

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內容簡介 《如果尼采是獨角鯨》作者新作，以幽默又犀利的筆調，探究人類天生的「擬人化」偏誤Humanish：為什麼我們總把世界想成人？——擬人化如何讓人類變聰明、變怪，也變得更容易被騙？你是否曾看著你的貓，懷疑牠正在密謀什麼？或路過一台車，只因為車燈形狀，就覺得它「友善」、「驚訝」甚至「憤怒」？ 這就是「擬人化」——人類天生會把動物、自然現象，甚至無生命物體想成人的奇妙傾向。而且，這份偏好遠比你想像的更離奇。如今甚至出現專門替被結紮的狗狗做「外觀補償」的高額產業；而海豚研究者賈斯汀・葛雷格（Justin Gregg）也經常收到孕婦詢問海豚是否能擔任接生員（答案是：絕對不行！）。在《Humanish》中，葛雷格帶領讀者深入探究這份怪誕而可愛的心理偏誤如何形塑我們理解世界的方式。 從動畫電影裡會說話的動物角色，到我們如何與即將填滿生活的機器人互動，他以幽默、犀利又富含洞察的筆調，揭露擬人化帶給人類的創意、盲點與幻想。這是一趟爆笑又啟發性的旅程，透過科學研究與日常荒謬案例，他揭示這種心理如何讓我們更聰明、更怪，也更容易被自己騙。你會發現：我們理解世界的方式，其實是一面鏡子。Ever glanced at your cat and wondered if they were plotting something? Or passed a car and thought it seemed 'friendly', 'surprised' or 'angry' depending on the shape of its headlights?Anthropomorphism – the irresistible desire to apply human characteristics to animals, natural phenomena and even inanimate objects – is as natural as breathing.And it gets weirder... Million-dollar industries have sprung up to provide 'cosmetic enhancements' for dogs who've had the snip – their (inevitably male) owners wracked with guilt that their pets might be missing out on... something. Similarly, Justin Gregg, a researcher with the Dolphin Communication Project, regularly receives emails from mothers-to-be convinced that dolphins would make excellent midwives (spoiler alert: they definitely wouldn't).Diving into the strange way anthropomorphism shapes our understanding of the world, Gregg offers an eye-opening journey through human perception. From cinema's obsession with talking animals to the way we interact with our soon-to-be robot overlords, Humanish takes a hilarious journey through the strange world of anthropomorphism and explores what it reveals about this weird and wonderful bias within us all.

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各界推薦 Illuminating and lively… Gregg deftly guides us through our alternately charming, destructive and wrong-headed fantasies about everything from marine mammals to our iPhones… His stories repeatedly surprised and enlightened me, overturning my assumptions about other species.' ―Guardian, Book of the Day

作者介紹

作者介紹 Justin GreggJustin Gregg is science writer and author of the book If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal. Justin regularly lectures on topics related to animal dolphin cognition and teaches a course on Animal Minds at St. Francis Xavier University. He has written widely about animal behavior and cognition, with articles appearing in Salon, The Wall Street Journal, Aeon Magazine, Scientific American, BBC Focus, Slate, as well as on his blog with Psychology Today, 'Elegant Arguments'.

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最佳賣點 : 《如果尼采是獨角鯨》作者新作，以幽默又犀利的筆調，探究人類天生的「擬人化」偏誤
《Humanish：為什麼我們總把世界想成人？——擬人化如何讓人類變聰明、變怪，也變得更容易被騙》

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