How many times has it happened to you to talk to your pets, plants or even some objects, such as your pc? Even though you probably thought you went crazy, experts assure you that everything is okay.
How many times have you happened to talk to yours pets, with plants or even with some object, such as the pc? Even though you probably thought you went crazy, experts assure you that everything is okay. Indeed it is a symptom of intelligence
When children talk to theirs toys, they are seen with the eyes of love, but if it happens to an adult, there are more times that they turn up their noses than those in which it is considered normal. However, according to behavioral science experts, this is closer to intelligence than to stupidity.
After puberty, anyone who talks to the bunny or the plant is seen by the community or as a person with signs of imbalance or as someone going through a difficult time or as a child.
Instead, there is a scientific explanation for why adults tend to anthropoform everything. On this topic he intervenes Nicholas epley, professor of behavioral sciences at the University of Chicago and perhaps the world's foremost expert on the subject.
Historically, anthropoformism has been treated as a sign of childishness or stupidity, but it is actually a natural by-product that makes humans intelligent. There is no other species that has this tendency, ”she says.
Epley explains that this trend is daily. It happens for example when let's give names to cars, scooters, PCs etc and we relate to them as if we were establishing social relationships by projecting ourselves onto objects.
But all of this goes further when we believe our cat is taking action "shameless" or when we ask our car why it won't turn on. All of this is the byproduct of active and intelligent social cognition.
According to experts there are anyway three primitive reasons linked to this behavior, namely that of anthropoforming something. This is done when:
1. May have or appears to have a human face;
2. Can be a friend as a pet;
3. It is not possible to explain their behavior (like the laptop every time it restarts).
But it can also be a symptom of something very different, the solitude.
“The more we feel alone, the more we tend to develop these behaviors,” explains Epley.
And he adds:
“Treating objects and animals like human beings is not a symptom of insanity. The psychological mechanisms of this type of behavior are the same as those that exist in social interactions among human beings ".
We tend to talk to animals because they are truly wonderful:
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Dominella Trunfio
