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Why you apologize to furniture after bumping into it

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Stub your toe on a chair, and you might naturally find yourself yelling at the furniture as if it plotted against you. Anthropomorphism is our bizarre tendency to assign complex human intentions to completely dead objects. We beg our cars to start in the morning and genuinely feel guilty when we throw away a slightly bruised apple, proving we project humanity onto literally anything.

Why you apologize to furniture after bumping into it
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