The phrase "attribute emotions" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the assignment of feelings or emotional characteristics to a person, character, or situation.
Example: "In her novel, the author tends to attribute emotions to inanimate objects, giving them a sense of life and personality."
Alternatives: "assign feelings" or "ascribe emotions".
Her dialogue History of Two Chameleons indicates her rejection of Descartes's mechanistic theory of nature in favor of a vitalist account of nature which attributes emotions and even moral qualities to non-human animals.
Rather than mistakenly attributing emotions that they do not experience, our larger mistake has been denying emotions that other animals do experience.
An fMRI study by Ochsner et al. [31] found left precuneus to be one of the regions activated by attributing emotions to other people and the self, together with posterior cingulate and prefrontal cortex.
In the present study, the attributes emotion, cognition and pain were determined to be the most suitable for the study subject [ 27].
When someone says you can't attribute human emotions to animals, they forget the key leveling detail: Humans are animals.
Counterfactuals also seem to play a role in attributing moral emotions: Four- to 8-year-olds attributed more negative emotions to the violator of a moral norm when a counterfactual course of action was presented beforehand (e.g., "How would Tim feel if he had not taken the chocolate?") than when no such counterfactual prompt was given (Gummerum, Cribbett, Nicolau, & Uren, 2013).
Later beholders – his works began to be talked about soon after his death in 1783 – gave descriptive titles to his contorted heads, attributing specific emotions to each one.
This means developing processes to understand what information, attributes and emotions actually motivate consumers to change purchases towards more sustainable, healthy, socially-responsible options.
In 1856, in the third volume of "Modern Painters," Ruskin criticized writers for attributing human emotions to the natural world, a tendency that he famously termed the pathetic fallacy.
Ms. Goodall's anthropomorphic engagement with chimps was, literally and figuratively, touchy-feely: she physically engaged them, gave them adorable names like David Greybeard and attributed human emotions like love to their interactions.
