The Influence of Anthropomorphism on Giving Personal Names to Objects

Some people give a proper name to an owned individual object, such as car or computer. The study examined whether giving specific object is associated with personification, and more specifically, personification prerequisite giving. latter question was assessed by asking 130 participants whether, in their adult life, they had ever given personal if so, attributed psychological characteristics that named object. general relationship between evaluating the scores from questionnaire on anthropomorphism differed who reported having at least one compared those not doing so (Mann-Whitney’s U test). Results showed were significantly higher for names objects than done so. However, found be Indeed, about 40 percent of did attribute qualities these objects.