Does Your Pet Seem Almost Human? It May Be A Clever Response To Loneliness

Here is an interesting piece from Science Daily

ScienceDaily (2008-01-20) — When people lack a sense of connection with other people, they are more likely to see their pets, gadgets or gods as human-like, according to new research. In one experiment, the team found a correlation between how lonely people felt and their tendency to describe a gadget in terms of humanlike mental states.

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