Perhaps this boyfriend has been reading too much Stephen King recently?
People like to give inanimate objects names. I named my guitar Zac when I was 14, for example. Others even talk to their beloved things and treat them like a human, and there’s hardly anything wrong with that, right? Well, to some, it might seem just like a harmless quirk. But others think these people are weird and their behavior is, who called out his girlfriend for treating her car, Angie, like a person, saying that she’s being “weird” and “embarrassing.
Essentially, it’s because the non-human entity either has a human-like face, we want to be friends with it, or we just can’t explain its behavior. We’re especially prone to anthropomorphize an object if it has eyes. writes that anthropomorphizing things can fulfill a social need. When we’re feeling lonely or sensitive, we might want to spend time with our pets, like talk to them. A plushy can also give us comfort, more so if we give it a name and attribute emotions to it., where they found that when people attributed human qualities to nature, they were more likely to care about wildlife conservation.found that misunderstandings happen when we tend to treat our pets like people.
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