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Uncanny valley, the Glossary

The effect is a hypothesized psychological and aesthetic relation between an object's degree of resemblance to a human being and the emotional response to the object.^[1]

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A Christmas Carol (2009 film)

Disney's A Christmas Carol (or simply A Christmas Carol) is a 2009 American animated Christmas film produced, written for the screen and directed by Robert Zemeckis.

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Adweek

Adweek is a weekly American advertising trade publication that was first published in 1979.

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Affective computing

Affective computing is the study and development of systems and devices that can recognize, interpret, process, and simulate human affects.

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Al Pacino

Alfredo James Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an American actor.

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Android science is an interdisciplinary framework for studying human interaction and cognition based on the premise that a very humanlike robot (that is, an android) can elicit human-directed social responses in human beings. Uncanny valley and android science are android (robot).

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Animal Kingdom: Let's Go Ape

Animal Kingdom: Let's Go Ape (Pourquoi j'ai pas mangé mon père), also titled Evolution Man and Why I Did (Not) Eat My Father, is a 2015 animated adventure comedy film directed by Jamel Debbouze in collaboration with producer Fred Fougea.

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Animation

Animation is a filmmaking technique by which still images are manipulated to create moving images.

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Anthropocentrism

Anthropocentrism is the belief that human beings are the central or most important entity on the planet.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian and American actor, businessman, filmmaker, former politician, and former professional bodybuilder known for his roles in high-profile action films.

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Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.

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Augmented reality

Augmented reality (AR) is an interactive experience that combines the real world and computer-generated 3D content.

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Autism

Autism, also called autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or autism spectrum condition (ASC), is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by symptoms of deficient reciprocal social communication and the presence of restricted, repetitive and inflexible patterns of behavior that are impairing in multiple contexts and excessive or atypical to be developmentally and socioculturally inappropriate.

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Autistic masking

Autistic masking, also referred to as camouflaging or neurodivergent masking, is the conscious or subconscious suppression of autistic behaviors and compensation of difficulties in social interaction by autistic people with the goal of being perceived as neurotypical.

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École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is a public research university in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Beowulf (2007 film)

Beowulf is a 2007 American adult animated fantasy action film produced and directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary, based on the Old English epic poem Beowulf, and featuring the voices of Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Robin Wright Penn, Brendan Gleeson, John Malkovich, Crispin Glover, Alison Lohman, and Angelina Jolie.

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Beowulf (hero)

Beowulf (Bēowulf) is a legendary Geatish hero in the eponymous epic poem, one of the oldest surviving pieces of English literature.

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Bob the Builder

Bob the Builder is a British animated children's television series created by Keith Chapman for HIT Entertainment and Hot Animation.

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Body modification

Body modification (or body alteration) is the deliberate altering of the human anatomy or human physical appearance.

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California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology

The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2, previously Cal(IT)2), also referred to as the Qualcomm Institute (QI) at its San Diego branch, is a collaborative academic research institution of the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego), the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and University of California, Riverside.

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Capgras delusion

Capgras delusion or Capgras syndrome is a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend, spouse, parent, another close family member, or pet has been replaced by an identical impostor.

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Carrie Fisher

Carrie Frances Fisher (October 21, 1956 – December 27, 2016) was an American actress and writer.

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Cats (2019 film)

Cats is a 2019 musical fantasy film based on the 1981 Westend musical Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber, which in turn was based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot.

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Cengage Group

Cengage Group is an American educational content, technology, and services company for higher education, K–12, professional, and library markets.

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Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.

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Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (film)

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers is a 2022 American live-action/animated adventure comedy film based on the characters Chip and Dale and loosely inspired by the 1989 animated TV series of the same name.

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Chris Frith

Christopher Donald Frith FRS, FMedSci, FBA, FAAAS (born 16 March 1942) is a British psychologist and professor emeritus at the Wellcome Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London.

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Classification

Classification is usually understood to mean the allocation of objects to certain pre-existing classes or categories.

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CNBC

CNBC is an American business news channel owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of Comcast's NBCUniversal.

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Cognition

Cognition is the "mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses".

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Cognitive dissonance

In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is described as the mental disturbance people feel when their cognitions and actions are inconsistent or contradictory.

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Cognitive science

Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary, scientific study of the mind and its processes.

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Computer-generated imagery

Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is a specific-technology or application of computer graphics for creating or improving images in art, printed media, simulators, videos and video games.

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CRC Press

The CRC Press, LLC is an American publishing group that specializes in producing technical books.

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Creepiness

Creepiness is the state of being creepy, or causing an unpleasant feeling of fear or unease.

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Cross-race effect

The cross-race effect (sometimes called cross-race bias, other-race bias, own-race bias or other-race effect) is the tendency to more easily recognize faces that belong to one's own racial group, or racial groups that one has been in contact with.

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Dana Stevens (critic)

Dana Shawn Stevens (born June 30, 1966) is an American film critic who writes for ''Slate''.

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Dario Floreano

Dario Floreano (born 1964 in San Daniele del Friuli, Italy) is a Swiss-Italian roboticist and engineer.

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David Hanson (robotics designer)

David Hanson Jr. is an American roboticist who is the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Hanson Robotics, a Hong Kong-based robotics company founded in 2013.

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De-aging in motion pictures and television

In motion pictures, whether for film (cinema), television, or streaming, de-aging is a visual effects technique used to make an actor or actress look younger, especially for flashback scenes.

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Deepfake

Deepfakes (a portmanteau of "deep learning" and "fake") were originally synthetic media that had been digitally manipulated to replace one person's likeness convincingly with that of another.

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Disney+

Disney+ is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming media service owned and operated by Disney Streaming, the streaming division of Disney Entertainment, a major business segment of the Walt Disney Company.

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Doll

A doll is a model typically of a human or humanoid character, often used as a toy for children.

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Doppelgänger

A doppelgänger, sometimes spelled doppelgaenger or doppelganger, is a biologically unrelated look-alike or double, of a living person.

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East Valley Tribune

The East Valley Tribune is a newspaper concentrated on cities within the East Valley region of metropolitan Phoenix, including Mesa, Tempe, Chandler, Gilbert, and Queen Creek.

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Empathy

Empathy is generally described as the ability to take on another's perspective, to understand, feel, and possibly share and respond to their experience. Uncanny valley and Empathy are concepts in metaphysics.

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Endocrine system

The endocrine system is a messenger system in an organism comprising feedback loops of hormones that are released by internal glands directly into the circulatory system and that target and regulate distant organs.

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Ernst Jentsch

Ernst Anton Jentsch (1867-1919) was a German psychiatrist.

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Facial expression

A facial expression is one or more motions or positions of the muscles beneath the skin of the face.

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Fertility

Fertility in colloquial terms refers the ability to have offspring.

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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a 2001 adult animated science fiction film directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of the Final Fantasy franchise.

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Frankenstein complex

The Frankenstein complex is a term coined by Isaac Asimov in his robot series, referring to the fear of mechanical men. Uncanny valley and Frankenstein complex are Technophobia.

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Functional magnetic resonance imaging

Functional magnetic resonance imaging or functional MRI (fMRI) measures brain activity by detecting changes associated with blood flow.

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Game Informer

Game Informer (GI) is an American monthly video game magazine featuring articles, news, strategy, and reviews of video games and associated consoles.

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Gemini Man (film)

Gemini Man is a 2019 American science fiction action thriller film directed by Ang Lee.

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Genetically modified organism

A genetically modified organism (GMO) is any organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques.

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Gizmodo

Gizmodo is a design, technology, science, and science fiction website.

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Golem

A golem (גּוֹלֶם|gōlem) is an animated, anthropomorphic being in Jewish folklore, which is created entirely from inanimate matter, usually clay or mud.

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Grendel

Grendel is a character in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf (700–1000 CE).

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Houston Chronicle

The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (The Huffington Post until 2017; often abbreviated as HuffPo) is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions.

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Hulk

The Hulk is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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Human–robot interaction

Human–robot interaction (HRI) is the study of interactions between humans and robots.

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IEEE Spectrum

IEEE Spectrum is a magazine edited by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

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ImageMovers

ImageMovers, L.L.C. (IM) (formerly known as South Side Amusement Company), is an American production company which produces CGI animation, motion-capture, live-action films and television shows.

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Immune system

The immune system is a network of biological systems that protects an organism from diseases.

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Information processing (psychology)

In cognitive psychology, information processing is an approach to the goal of understanding human thinking that treats cognition as essentially computational in nature, with the mind being the software and the brain being the hardware.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) professional association for electronics engineering, electrical engineering, and other related disciplines.

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 American science-fiction horror film produced by Walter Wanger, directed by Don Siegel, and starring Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter.

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Irvin D. Yalom

Irvin David Yalom (born June 13, 1931) is an American existential psychiatrist who is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, as well as author of both fiction and nonfiction.

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Jasia Reichardt

Jasia Reichardt (born Janina Chaykin; 13 November 1933) is a British art critic, curator, art gallery director, teacher and prolific writer, specialist in the emergence of computer art.

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Jeff Bridges

Jeffrey Leon Bridges (born December 4, 1949) is an American actor and musician.

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Joe Pesci

Joseph Frank Pesci (born February 9, 1943) is an American actor.

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Jon Driver

Jonathon Stevens "Jon Driver" (4 July 1962 – 28 November 2011) was a psychologist and neuroscientist.

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Kevin Kelly (editor)

Kevin Kelly (born 1952) is the founding executive editor of ''Wired'' magazine and a former editor and publisher of the Whole Earth Review.

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Kurt Loder

Kurt Loder (born May 5, 1945) is an American entertainment critic, author, columnist, and television personality.

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Lachesis muta

Lachesis muta, also known as the Southern American bushmaster or Atlantic bushmaster, is a venomous pit viper species found in South America, as well as the island of Trinidad in the Caribbean.

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Leslie Zebrowitz

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List of biggest box-office bombs

In the film and media industry, if a film released in theatres fails to break even by a large amount, it is considered a box-office bomb (or box-office flop), thus losing money for the distributor, studio, and/or production company that invested in it.

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Literal translation

Literal translation, direct translation, or word-for-word translation is a translation of a text done by translating each word separately without looking at how the words are used together in a phrase or sentence.

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Machine learning

Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalize to unseen data and thus perform tasks without explicit instructions.

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Manohla Dargis

Manohla June Dargis is an American film critic.

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Mars Needs Moms

Mars Needs Moms is a 2011 American animated science fiction film co-written and directed by Simon Wells, produced by ImageMovers Digital and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

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Mary Elizabeth Williams

Mary Elizabeth Williams is an American writer and commentator.

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Masahiro Mori (roboticist)

is a Japanese roboticist noted for his pioneering work in the fields of robotics and automation, his research achievements in humans' emotional responses to non-human entities, as well as for his views on religion.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Mate choice

Mate choice is one of the primary mechanisms under which evolution can occur.

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Mere-exposure effect

The mere-exposure effect is a psychological phenomenon by which people tend to develop liking or disliking for things merely because they are familiar with them.

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Minimal counterintuitiveness effect

Cognitive anthropologist Pascal Boyer argued that minimally counterintuitive concepts (MCI) i.e., concepts that violate a few ontological expectations of a category such as the category of an agent, are more memorable than intuitive and maximally counterintuitive (MXCI) concepts.

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Mirror neuron

A mirror neuron is a neuron that fires both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another.

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Mortality salience

Mortality salience is the awareness that one's death is inevitable.

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Motor cortex

The motor cortex is the region of the cerebral cortex involved in the planning, control, and execution of voluntary movements.

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Muscle

Muscle is a soft tissue, one of the four basic types of animal tissue.

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Neoteny

Neoteny, also called juvenilization,Montagu, A. (1989).

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New York Daily News

The New York Daily News, officially titled the Daily News, is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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Newsday

Newsday is a daily newspaper in the United States primarily serving Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island, although it is also sold throughout the New York metropolitan area.

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Outing

Outing is the act of disclosing an LGBT person's sexual orientation or gender identity without that person's consent.

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Parasitism

Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.

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Pareidolia

Pareidolia is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. Uncanny valley and Pareidolia are visual perception.

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Parietal lobe

The parietal lobe is one of the four major lobes of the cerebral cortex in the brain of mammals.

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Pathogen

In biology, a pathogen (πάθος, "suffering", "passion" and -γενής, "producer of"), in the oldest and broadest sense, is any organism or agent that can produce disease.

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Paul Clinton

Paul Clinton (1953 – January 30, 2006) was an American film critic.

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Penguin Group

Penguin Group is a British trade book publisher and part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann.

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Peter Bradshaw

Peter Nicholas Bradshaw (born 19 June 1962) is a British writer and film critic.

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Peter Cushing

Peter Wilton Cushing (26 May 1913 – 11 August 1994) was an English actor.

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Peter Travers

Peter Joseph Travers (born) is an American film critic, journalist, and television presenter.

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Photorealism

Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium.

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Pixar

Pixar Animation Studios, known simply as Pixar, is an American animation studio based in Emeryville, California, known for its critically and commercially successful computer-animated feature films.

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Posthuman

Posthuman or post-human is a concept originating in the fields of science fiction, futurology, contemporary art, and philosophy that means a person or entity that exists in a state beyond being human.

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Psychoanalysis

PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: +. is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques"What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a body of knowledge.

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Psychology Today

Psychology Today is an American media organization with a focus on psychology and human behavior.

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Reborn doll

A reborn doll is a hand made art doll created from a blank kit or a manufactured doll that has been transformed by an artist to resemble a human infant with as much realism as possible.

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Robert De Niro

Robert Anthony De Niro (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor and film producer.

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Robert Zemeckis

Robert Lee Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an American filmmaker.

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Robotics

Robotics is the interdisciplinary study and practice of the design, construction, operation, and use of robots.

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Rogue One

Rogue One (or Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) is a 2016 American epic space opera film directed by Gareth Edwards.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.

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Salon.com

Salon is an American politically progressive and liberal news and opinion website created in 1995.

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She-Hulk

She-Hulk (Jennifer Susan Walters) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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She-Hulk: Attorney at Law

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law is an American television miniseries created by Jessica Gao for the streaming service Disney+, based on Marvel Comics featuring the character She-Hulk.

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Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche, through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency derived from it.

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Slate (magazine)

Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States.

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Sonic the Hedgehog (film)

Sonic the Hedgehog is a 2020 action-adventure comedy film based on the video game series published by Sega.

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Sorites paradox

The sorites paradox (sometimes known as the paradox of the heap) is a paradox that results from vague predicates.

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Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.

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Terminator Genisys

Terminator Genisys is a 2015 American cyberpunk action film that is the fifth installment in the ''Terminator'' franchise.

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Terminator Salvation

Terminator Salvation is a 2009 American military science fiction action film that is the fourth installment of the ''Terminator'' franchise, serving as a sequel to Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), but also as a soft reboot.

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The Adventures of Tintin (film)

The Adventures of Tintin (also known as The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn) is a 2011 animated epic action-adventure film based on Hergé's comic book series of the same name.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.

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The Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Monitor (CSM), commonly known as The Monitor, is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles both in electronic format and a weekly print edition.

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The Economist

The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Irishman

The Irishman (also known as I Heard You Paint Houses) is a 2019 American epic gangster film directed and produced by Martin Scorsese from a screenplay by Steven Zaillian, based on the 2004 book I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt.

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The Lion King

The Lion King is a 1994 American animated musical coming-of-age drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution under the Walt Disney Pictures banner.

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The Lion King (2019 film)

The Lion King is a 2019 American musical drama film that is a photorealistically animated remake of the traditionally-animated 1994 film The Lion King.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Polar Express (film)

The Polar Express is a 2004 American animated adventure film directed by Robert Zemeckis, who co-wrote the screenplay with William Broyles Jr., based on the 1985 children's book of the same name by Chris Van Allsburg.

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The San Diego Union-Tribune

The San Diego Union-Tribune is a metropolitan daily newspaper published in San Diego, California, that has run since 1868.

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The Voyage of the Beagle

The Voyage of the Beagle is the title most commonly given to the book written by Charles Darwin and published in 1839 as his Journal and Remarks, bringing him considerable fame and respect.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Tin Toy

Tin Toy is a 1988 American animated short film produced by Pixar and directed by John Lasseter.

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Transhuman

Transhuman, or trans-human, is the concept of an intermediary form between human and posthuman.

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Tron: Legacy

Tron: Legacy (stylized as TRON: Legacy) is a 2010 American science fiction action film directed by Joseph Kosinski from a screenplay by Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, based on a story by Horowitz, Kitsis, Brian Klugman, and Lee Sternthal.

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Unbiased rendering

Unbiased rendering in computer graphics refers to techniques that avoid systematic errors, or biases, in the radiance approximation of an image.

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Uncanny

The uncanny is the psychological experience of an event or thing that is unsettling in a way that feels oddly familiar, rather than simply mysterious.

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University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California.

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University of Michigan Press

The University of Michigan Press is a new university press (NUP) that is a part of Michigan Publishing at the University of Michigan Library.

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USA Today

USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.

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Vampire bat

Vampire bats, members of the subfamily Desmodontinae, are leaf-nosed bats currently found in Central and South America.

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Verisimilitude

In philosophy, verisimilitude (or truthlikeness) is the notion that some propositions are closer to being true than other propositions. Uncanny valley and verisimilitude are concepts in the philosophy of science.

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Video game

A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.

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Virtual actor

A virtual human, virtual persona, or digital clone is the creation or re-creation of a human being in image and voice using computer-generated imagery and sound, that is often indistinguishable from the real actor.

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Virtual human

A virtual human (or digital human) is a software fictional character or human being.

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Virtual reality

Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs 3D near-eye displays and pose tracking to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world.

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Virus

A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism.

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Visual cortex

The visual cortex of the brain is the area of the cerebral cortex that processes visual information. Uncanny valley and visual cortex are visual perception.

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Visual perception

Visual perception is the ability to interpret the surrounding environment through photopic vision (daytime vision), color vision, scotopic vision (night vision), and mesopic vision (twilight vision), using light in the visible spectrum reflected by objects in the environment.

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Will Smith

Willard Carroll Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, rapper and film producer.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

Also known as Bukimi no tani, Creepy valley, Eerie valley, The Uncanny Valley, Uncanny Valley in popular culture, Uncanny valley effect.

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