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

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拟人化对物品人名的影响

有些人为拥有的单个对象（例如汽车或计算机）赋予专有名称。该研究检查了给特定对象取专有名称是否与对象拟人化有关，更具体地说，对象拟人化是否是命名的先决条件。后一个问题的评估是通过询问 130 名参与者，在他们的成年生活中，他们是否曾经给某个物体起过个人名字，如果有，他们是否将心理特征归因于那个命名的物体。个人命名和拟人化之间的一般关系是通过评估拟人化问卷的分数是否在报告给至少一个个人对象的参与者中与那些报告没有这样做的参与者之间存在差异来评估的（Mann-Whitney's U 测试）。结果表明，在拟人化问卷中，给物体起特定名称的参与者的得分显着高于没有这样做的参与者。然而，没有发现对象拟人是命名的先决条件。事实上，大约 40% 的人在报告给物体起个人名字的人中没有将心理品质归因于这些物体。