Smartphones as Social Actors? Social dispositional factors in assessing anthropomorphism

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Highlights:

• Exploration of the relationship between social disposition and smartphone anthropomorphism.

• Loneliness and preoccupied attachment traits are associated with smartphone anthropomorphism.

• Lonely people are prone to anthropomorphism in both individualistic and collectivistic cultures.

• Anthropomorphism relates to how people are culturally oriented to cope with close relationships.

摘要

•Exploration of the relationship between social disposition and smartphone anthropomorphism.•Loneliness and preoccupied attachment traits are associated with smartphone anthropomorphism.•Lonely people are prone to anthropomorphism in both individualistic and collectivistic cultures.•Anthropomorphism relates to how people are culturally oriented to cope with close relationships.

论文关键词:Computers as Social Actors,Smartphone,Anthropomorphism,Chronic loneliness,Attachment style,Cultural orientation

论文评审过程:Received 5 December 2015, Revised 12 November 2016, Accepted 15 November 2016, Available online 2 December 2016, Version of Record 2 December 2016.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.11.022