Anthropomorphism
![In this illustration by Milo Winter of Aesop's fable,](/Images/godic/202412/21/The_North_Wind_and_the_Sun_-_Wind_-_Project_Gutenberg_etext_199942054.jpg")
![The 40,000-year-old Löwenmensch figurine](/Images/godic/202412/21/Lion_man_photo2054.jpg")
![From the Panchatantra: Rabbit fools Elephant by showing the reflection of the moon](/Images/godic/202412/21/Syrischer_Maler_von_1354_0012054.jpg")
![John Tenniel's depiction of this anthropomorphic rabbit was featured in the first chapter of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland](/Images/godic/202412/21/Down_the_Rabbit_Hole2054.png")
Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, and intentions to non-human entities and is considered to be an innate tendency of human psychology.
Personification is the related attribution of human form and characteristics to abstract concepts such as nations, emotions and natural forces likes seasons and the weather.