Objects don’t have feelings, but some people treat them like they do. It’s called anthropomorphizing, and it’s natural to do to objects and animals, experts say.

When people feel sympathy for inanimate objects, they are anthropomorphizing, attributing human behaviors or feelings to animals or objects who cannot feel the same emotions as we do, Shepard said.

“Inanimate” is the first piece of theater, or any other art form, I’ve encountered that addresses objectum sexuality. In a meta comment, Erica bemoans the lack of representation in pop culture.

As scary as movie monsters like Freddy Kruger, Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees and Norman Bates can be, there is another brand of killer that has proven it can be just as scary -- the inanimate object.

This is as true for human faces as it is for inanimate objects. Images credit: flickr user Jun'ichiro Seyama, under a c.c.-by-s.a.-2.0 license.

Animate, inanimate, and social: How the brain categorizes information Date: January 27, 2014 Source: Sissa Medialab Summary: For our brain, animate and inanimate objects belong to different ...

In fact, it might be the most inanimate object on this list, given that it doesn’t budge; not for Tony Stark or Captain America or (heh) Hawkeye. Come on, Hawkeye, you never had a chance.