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According to previous studies, Anthropomorphism, or the propensity to attribute human characteristics to non-human items, has been associated with hoarding. Additionally, the findings stated that younger individuals had more substantial hoarding and anthropomorphizing cognitions and behaviors, and women demonstrated stronger early anthropomorphizing behaviors compared to males.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Neave |first=Nick |last2=Jackson |first2=Rachel |last3=Saxton |first3=Tamsin |last4=Hönekopp |first4=Johannes |date=2015-01-01 |title=The influence of anthropomorphic tendencies on human hoarding behaviours |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886914004863 |journal=Personality and Individual Differences |volume=72 |pages=214–219 |doi=10.1016/j.paid.2014.08.041 |issn=0191-8869}}</ref>
== History of Hoarding ==
===Anxiety and hoarding===▼
The first documented case of Hoarding was in the Collyer Mansion by the brothers Homer and Langley in in 1947, New York. Their mansion became an attraction in 1938 because of the extreme level of accumulation and fortune found in their residence after their deaths.<ref>{{Cite web |title=PDF.js viewer |url=https://library.oapen.org/viewer/web/viewer.html?file=/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/62022/9781501752810.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |access-date=2023-10-05 |website=library.oapen.org}}</ref>
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[[File:Compulsive hoarding Apartment.jpg|thumb|Apartment of a compulsive hoarder]]
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