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| Description: Family portraits of dogs, as of people, often reveal different personalities: Someone is posing nicely, someone isn’t paying attention, someone is distracted, and someone is goofing off by biting a sibling’s ear. In an imaginative set of studies, Gosling and colleagues (2003) studied canine personality by recruiting dogs and their owners in a local park. First, the owners provided personality assessments of their dogs and themselves. The owners then designated another person who knew them and their dogs, and who could also judge the personalities of both. Next, the owners brought their dogs to an enclosed section of the park where independent observers rated the dogs. The dog owners, their friends, and the neutral observers all agreed in their ratings of the dogs’ personalities along four of the Big Five dimensions: extraversion, agreeableness, emotional stability, and openness to experience. Picture Stats: Views: 249 Filesize: 353.8kB Height: 295 Width: 497 Source: https://biology-forums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=41937 |