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| | If you take a close look at dogs and their owners the old saying that
they are alike is actually right in 3 out of 10 pairs. So says the
statistics of the recent study conducted by professor Nicholas Christenfeld
of the University of California. Christenfeld took a random sample of
the dogs and their owners and took pictures of them to study the
visual similarities and behavioral patterns. Strong facial feature similarities was found in
three out of ten cases. In other words dogs do look like their owners
almost in every third household which keeps these four legged friends.
Why does this happen, and specifically how does this happen. The
process has to do with psychology of picking up pets, especially dogs
by the future owners. When a person looks at mutts, he is naturally
drawn to those that resemble him in the looks or behavior. When they
live together these similarities tend to grow bigger as they pick up
the behavioral patterns from each other. Dogs, like children begin to
resemble their owners in their behavior. Visual trait similarities (especially
hair style) often remain and even increase through the years. The
research study at the University of California even conducted an
experiment. The photos of dogs and their owners were separated and
given to panel people who were asked to possibly match back pairs of
owners and their dogs. The results were amazing - in over sixty
percent of cases the pairs were matched correctly. Such high
statistical figure shows that similar visual traits do play a vital
role in pet choosing, and it's especially true with the dogs - animals
which are closer to humans than any other pets. Dogs are also shown to
have a higher intelligence than any other household pets. Christenfeld
suggest that psychology plays a vital role in the choice of a mutt.
Humans are naturally drawn to animals that resemble them either with
visual traits or in behavior. |
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