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Sunday 29 January 2023

Talking To Your Dog Is A Sign Of Intelligence

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Do you ever talk to your dogs more than you talk to most human beings, and do you ever wonder if it made you an animal lover or… something else. Science says you can breathe easy, though, because talking to your dog is a sign of intelligence, as well as a sense of creativity and imagination. Oh good!

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When we talk to our dogs, we assign them a personality — and it turns out there’s a name for the way we give humanlike tendencies to animals and inanimate objects: It’s called anthropomorphising, which Dictionary.point 192 | com defines as, “to ascribe human form or attributes to (an animal, plant, material object, etc.point 279 |

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)”.point 9 | Yes, you can even talk to plants, and science says it’s OK.point 63 | It involves the same psychological processes as recognizing the mind of another person.point 138 | 1

In fact, Nicholas Epley — a behavioral science professor at the University of Chicago — told Quartz that anthropomorphising is “a natural byproduct of the tendency that makes humans uniquely smart on this planet.point 327 |

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” So, excessively talking to my dogs doesn’t make me strange.point 63 | It makes me uniquely smart.point 86 | (Win!) It’s an indication of our innate need for companionship.point 146 | We give things — like our cars — a personality because it helps us feel closer to them.point 220 |

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It enhances our bond with these things, which we treat as an extension of our identity.point 72 | 1

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Whereas you might feel silly talking to your car (I don’t!), it’s perhaps surprisingly an indication of your self-awareness.

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And it’s an ability so unique that no other species can pull it off. We already know that animals communicate with each other; and certain animals, like elephants and beluga whales, can even learn to mimic human language. But assigning a mind or personality in other creatures or even inanimate objects is uniquely human.

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While the same can’t be said for inanimate objects, there’s a whole field of study behind how dogs process language and communication; indeed, research knows that they can understand a great deal of what we say to them. Rico the border collie, for example, can understand over 200 words and learn new words as fast as many children.

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Talking to your pet and inanimate objects is a sign of intelligence, as is talking to yourself — something else we often consider kind of weird.point 121 | In one intriguing study, psychologists Daniel Swigley and Gary Lupya gave 20 people the name of an object and told them to find it in a grocery store.point 244 |

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In the first round, the participants had to remain silent.point 49 | In the second, they repeated the object’s name aloud while they searched for it.point 122 | Guess what? This second group was able to find the object more easily.point 180 | 1

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Communication: It’s good for the brain — whether it’s with another human, with your four-legged pal Fluffy, with your car, or with… yourself. Stay chatty, my friends.


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