People like to look at people. If you boil down the long and winding history of figurative sculpture to a single motivating kernel, that would be it. Some 40,000 years ago, when a Paleolithic man ...

People crave social connection, Powers said. In fact, social ties are so important that lonely people actually have worse health than those who have strong social connections.

The Uncanny Valley Explained - Why Robots, Dolls and Mannequins are Creepy The Uncanny Valley is a common unsettling, anxious ...

The viral "uncanny valley" makeup trend is taking over TikTok with more than 40 million views as ... The “people” in the images seemed real at first glance but were noticed to have small but ...

Unease beyond the uncanny valley: How people react to the same faces. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 08 / 210830104914.htm. Ritsumeikan University.

The movie is a classic example of the phenomenon known as “the uncanny valley.” Up to a point, ... Most people preferred the cartoony robot and thought the realistic one was strange.

Most Pokémon take the shape of animals, plants, or objects. A selection, though, has adopted such human-like qualities that they enter the uncanny valley.

Michael Calore: This is WIRED's Uncanny Valley, a show about the people, power and influence of Silicon Valley. I'm Michael Calore, director of consumer tech and culture here at WIRED.