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Talking to pets is no longer a strange thing to do with animal lovers. Although sometimes it seems ridiculous to others who see it, you don't need to be shy anymore to show off your familiarity with your favorite doggy. A recent study shows that talking habits with pets is one of the characteristics of intelligent people.
Why talking to pets can be a sign of smart people?
According to Nicholas Epley, professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago who helped conduct this research, conversing with pets is one of the many ways that humans do to humanize inanimate objects or other living things.
It's common for us to do it everyday, and maybe you've never realized it before. For example, "Yeah, the cat fierce really! "," The stock market being lethargic", Up to poetic poems like" the waves never tired rolling "- even though, the waves occur because of the meeting of gusts of wind with sea water.
The ability to associate humanity with objects and non-human beings is called anthropomorphism. The urge to talk to pets is the way humans continue to use their advanced intelligence. "It's just a side effect of having active and intelligent social cognitive - training the brain to observe every detail and learn to feel the mind (empathy)," Ebley added.
Humans are the only species that has anthropomorphic abilities. No other species has this tendency. This is evidence of the natural evolution of humans that makes human intelligence so unique compared to other creatures.
What's more, Epley argues that individuals with stronger social intelligence tend to emphasize their anthropomorphic abilities, even though this has not been proven true. Lonely people may also tend to prefer to chat with their pets as a way to look for other alternative social interactions, when no other human is willing to interact with them.
Don't be afraid to look weird
Unfortunately, this study found that the more a person gets older, their anthropomorphic abilities tend to recede because they are afraid to look "crazy" or strange. Don't be afraid of the scorn of others! Just continue your habits to confide in the Sweet. After all, this is just your way to sharpen your brain.
Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary scientist at the London School of Economics and Political Science, in his research once said that those who create new evolutionary patterns (dare to talk to pets who clearly can't talk, rather than pretentious "jaim" and survive with patterns normal developed by our ancestors) is the most progressive group of humans.
Moreover, those who first change, dare to get out of stereotypes to look for something new, always be the most advanced and intelligent group in a society.
