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uncanny valley

hypothesis that human replicas which appear almost like real human beings elicit revulsion
Class type of: creepiness Q844664

Facts

3 properties
Instance of
psychology concept, artificial word[3]
Subclass of
creepiness
Part of
psychological terminology[4]
🏷️ Also known as
en uncanny valley ar واد غريب cs strašidelné údolí cs tísnivé údolí de Akzeptanzlücke es Teoría del valle inexplicable es Teoria del valle inquietante es Teoría del valle inquietante es Unheimliches Tal es Valle Inexplicable es valle inquietante es Uncanny Valley es Bukimi no tani es El Valle Inexplicable es El valle inquietante es Teoria del valle inexplicable fa دره امر غریب fi outo laakso fi uncanny valley fr theorie de la vallee derangeante
🔖 Identifiers · 11
OpenAlex ID
C2365568
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Mori Uncanny Valley.svg ↗
Freebase ID
/m/027p86
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2365568
Moegirlpedia ID
恐怖谷理论
Namuwiki ID
불쾌한 골짜기
NicoNicoPedia ID
不気味の谷
Pixiv Encyclopedia ID
不気味の谷
ScienceDirect topic ID
computer-science/uncanny-valley
TV Tropes ID
Main/UncannyValley
Topic's main category
Category:Uncanny valley

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🔗 Connections
Subclass of 1
creepiness
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Summary

uncanny valley is a psychology concept[1]. It is a type of creepiness[2].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14w ago · Mariobanana · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    Subclass of → creepiness
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