What Is an Imaginary Friend?

Matt says that according to developmental psychologist Tracy Gleason, it is tough to predict or even measure what a child will actually say when asked this question. Psychologists divvy up the broad category of imaginary friends into two groups: They're completely invisible pals, and then they're personified objects. So for psychologists, it's difficult to know whether a child is improvising this, as we said, or whether they're describing someone as real as Matt standing here, right? Totally. He's nodding. And you make a great point, Matt. Yes, I do have a friend. His name is Ethan. The one from Inside Out was Bing Bong. Oh, that was a good