Designing social robots with the aim to increase their acceptance is crucial for success of implementation. However, even though increasing anthropomorphism often seen as a promising way achieve this goal, uncanny valley effect proposes that can be detrimental unless are almost indistinguishable from humans. Against background, we use dual processing theory approach investigate whether an perce...

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Article history: Received 21 December 2015 Received in revised form 12 April 2016 Accepted 15 April 2016 Available online xxxx Hoarding behaviours are characterised by the acquisition of and failure to discard possessions, which leads to excessive and often dangerous clutter and significant psychological/emotional distress. The cognitive behaviouralmodel posits that a key aspect in the expressi...

Historically, the development of God concepts in human cognition has been explained anthropomorphically. In other words, for children especially, God is a big, superhuman who lives in the sky. Recent empirical research on the development of these concepts may suggest an alternative hypothesis. In this paper, we review this research and outline the "preparedness hypothesis," which suggests that ...