Why do people tend to talk to pets, objects?

A recent scientific study has explained why people tend to talk to objects or animals. This somewhat strange method of communication involves social intelligence.

One of the factors that makes people able to multiply animals, plants, materials . is thanks to the ability to identify and search faces anywhere. This is the unique ability of humans.

Dr. Nicholas Epley, Professor of Behavioral Sciences at the University of Chicago and an anthropologist, spoke on Quartz: "From time to time, people still give the possibility of humanization as a sign of good childishness. But this is a product of nature that makes people the smartest creatures on Earth.

No other species has this ability. Whether people realize it or not, people always multiply objects and events all the time . "

Many people have a hobby of talking to pets (Photo: Dailymail).

The most common anthropomorphic form is assigning people names to objects. There are 3 natural reasons for people to do so.

First, people have trouble seeing faces everywhere. Second, people often focus their minds on things they like and ultimately because people tend to multiply things they can't predict.

We often have trouble seeing faces. However, this instinct helps us distinguish our friends from those who can harm us. Sometimes, this instinct becomes very strong that makes us see faces in objects - called pareidolia .

This is so common that there used to be a Twitter account that specializes in sharing face images seen in objects. This account has 561,000 followers.

"Fake eyes" is a trap we often get. They deceive us by showing us things that don't exist in our minds.

"Because of being a member of the highest social species on the planet, people are very sensitive to the eyes, because this is the" window "for us to look at other people's minds, " said Dr Epley. .

An example of finding faces in objects is seen in Tom Hanks's Castaway, which was released in 2000.

In the movie, Hanks's character drew a face on the soccer ball and named it Wilson. He talked all day with "face in the ball" and the two of them became more and more intimate.

Other studies also show that objects with things that look like eyes will make people feel watched. A 2010 experiment at Newcastle University showed:

When the research team placed a poster with eyes in the university café instead of a flower poster, the students' littering situation dropped by half.

Another reason people multiply objects is because we tend to assign thoughts to what we like. This has an impact on political debates on issues such as abortion and the protection of animal rights.

Here people ask, are the fetuses or animals (anthropomorphic) sensing everything around the way a normal person is feeling?

A team of researchers also said that when they were shown images of adult animals and young animals, people liked smaller pets. Most likely, they will multiply them and name them, talk to them.

Some people even think that cars can think. A survey of 900 listeners from NPR shows that people who love their cars think they have the same thinking and behavior as people.

Although studies do not clearly demonstrate the link between humanization and social intelligence, they also provide evidence for researchers to continue their research and research.

However, Dr. Epley stated that the connection between social intelligence and humanization tendencies in humans can be very strong.

Because the more people participate in assigning thinking to objects, the more successful people are in explaining thoughts. And this process makes our social intelligence the most powerful and quickest.