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Talking to pets is no longer an unfamiliar thing for animal lovers. Even though it sometimes seems ridiculous to other people who see it, you no longer need to be shy about the cat showing off your intimacy with the favorite doggy. A recent study shows that the habit of talking with pets is one of the characteristics of intelligent people.
Why is talking to a pet a sign of a smart person?
According to Nicholas Epley, a behavioral science professor at the University of Chicago who helped carry out the research, conversing with pets is one of the many ways humans can humanize inanimate objects or other living things.
This is common we do everyday, and maybe you never realized before. For example, “Yuck the cat fierce really! ”,“ The stock market was sluggish", To the incisions of poetic poetry such as" yang waves never tired rolling up ”- in fact, the waves occur because of the meeting of the wind gusts with sea water.
The ability to associate human nature with non-human objects and creatures is called anthropomorphism. The urge to talk to pets is a human way of continuing to use their advanced intelligence. "This is just a side effect of having active and intelligent social cognition - training the brain to observe every detail and learn to feel the mind (to be empathetic)," Ebley added.
Humans are the only species that have anthropomorphic abilities. No other species has this tendency. This is evidence of natural human evolution which makes human intelligence so unique from other creatures.
Moreover, Epley argues that individuals with stronger social intelligence tend to emphasize their anthropomorphic abilities more, although this has not been proven to be true. Lonely people may also prefer to chat with their pets as a way to find alternative social interactions, when no other human is willing to interact with them.
Don't be afraid to look weird
Unfortunately, the study found that as people get older, their anthropomorphic abilities tend to diminish for fear of looking "crazy" or weird. Don't be afraid of other people's scorn! Just continue your habit of confiding in the sweet one. After all, this is only your way to hone 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 are clearly speechless, rather than "jaim" and stick with the pattern normal developed by our ancestors) is the most progressive group of humans.
After all, those who are the first to change, dare to break out of stereotypes in search of something new, are always the most advanced and intelligent group in a society.
