Norman (2004, 138) stresses that people anthropomorphize, that is, project human emotions and beliefs into anything, animate or not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

We do not "anthropomorphize" our digestion any more than we anthropomorphize furnaces with thermostats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minding the Brain] Reference

Humans anthropomorphize everything most of the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bucorvids: post-Cretaceous maniraptorans on the savannah] Reference

Cotter chooses to anthropomorphize everybody as cats.    From Wordnik.com.  [It Came from the NYPL: Skyscrapers of the Midwest] Reference

TAKE THAT, People who over-anthropomorphize their pets!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cat Graph From Our Sister Site, GraphJam - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

Nature really hates it when people anthropomorphize her.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Was God Thinking? Science Can't Tell. - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

"We're going to anthropomorphize our Jumper," Reich said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Dreams of Reality, 5] Reference

All of us anthropomorphize inanimate objects in our world.    From Wordnik.com.  [ideonexus.com » 2005 » November] Reference

Barefoot in November mud, it's hard not to anthropomorphize.    From Wordnik.com.  [Late November] Reference

Many of us even anthropomorphize the Earth into a living being.    From Wordnik.com.  [ideonexus.com » 2005 » November] Reference

Until then, we'll play and let others anthropomorphize the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cool or tragic? The engineer's dog.] Reference

To describe a rushing river as “angry” is to anthropomorphize it.    From Wordnik.com.  [anthropomorphism] Reference

The family resemblances make the urge to anthropomorphize irresistible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

Every holiday I'm forced to wonder: must we anthropomorphize everything?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

'Humans anthropomorphize everything most of the time, Believe me, I know.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bucorvids: post-Cretaceous maniraptorans on the savannah] Reference

We anthropomorphize them almost daily in TV commercials, movies, cartoons, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Animal Fantasy] Reference

Anyone else still secretly anthropomorphize toys or stuffed animals as an adult?.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Toy Story' director John Lasseter hawks toys...in the most pleasant way | EW.com] Reference

People tend to anthropomorphize the world around them, and not just in economics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Economics as Metaphor] Reference

As far as the cat being hungry goes, we do tend to anthropomorphize them too much.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back to work blues « knitnut.net] Reference

And, you know, cars just don ` t anthropomorphize as well as, say, animals or toys.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2006] Reference

If not to de-anthropomorphize man himself, at least the human being as an organism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minding the Brain] Reference

People don't anthropomorphize enough, having been scrared off by psych 101 courses.    From Wordnik.com.  ["He was my life. I raised him from 3-and-a-half weeks old... He slept with me every night, he combed my hair. Everything in the house is for him...."] Reference

I tend to anthropomorphize my vehicles and name them after fictional American heroes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interview with Pen woMan #4: The Rogue Taylor Reveals All] Reference

COOPER: Do you think people sort of anthropomorphize the idea of life on other planets?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2004] Reference

I think some people intensely disklike it when authors anthropomorphize animals period.    From Wordnik.com.  [Being Catty] Reference

But I have to add a little bit to anthropomorphize them a bit in their facial features.    From Wordnik.com.  [BEASTS OF BURDEN by Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson (Dark Horse)] Reference

That would, of course, anthropomorphize abstractions and render them somewhat less abstract.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference

Bees ACT angry, but do they feel angry or just act in a manner we anthropomorphize as "angry"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [What if you knew that to be human was nothing more than to be a machine?] Reference

She hated to anthropomorphize, especially from this distance, but the dog did appear depressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [In a Strange City]

Throughout school I was told over and over and over again not to anthropomorphize animal behavior.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bloomfield menagerie: paper wasp] Reference

I would rather neither anthropomorphize guns nor government and attribute to them human qualities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » IJ’s Bone Marrow Case: Judical Engagement, Not Activism] Reference

Oftentimes when reading stories with non-humanoid creatures, I tend to anthropomorphize the aliens.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle] Reference

We need to anthropomorphize the threat from outer space, turn it into an enemy that folks can gut level respond to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lawrence E. Joseph: The Need for Enemies] Reference

Now obviously a lot of people will feel we have a tendency to anthropomorphize animals, and will say that's what I did.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seema Kalia: My Favorite Mistake: Writer Jane Smiley On How Her Horse-Breeding Got A Little Out Of Hand] Reference

The plot revolves confusingly around a magical Egyptian tablet that causes the museum exhibits to anthropomorphize after dark.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Gervais] Reference

Yeah, like the guy says, not to anthropomorphize it too much ... but I know, and you know, that other species have connections to humans.    From Wordnik.com.  [dogsolitude Diary Entry] Reference

Even more scary is that users felt their iPhones were an extension of themselves and have actually begun to anthropomorphize their phones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steve Jobs's Diabolical Plan for Global Domination] Reference

I suggest that in effect Damasio, and Spinoza as read by Damasio, are engaged in a more heroic project: to "de-anthropomorphize" anthropos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minding the Brain] Reference