Why owners look like their dogs




















When people go adopt a dog, they tend to opt for dogs that are more familiar. For example, researchers have noticed that dogs and owners tend to share traits such as extroversion or shyness. In fact, it is believed to be that the personalities of dogs and their owners may be more closely matched than those of married couples!

Parker and I have been growing out our hair together. A post shared by Anna Franks anna. Guys, my mom had braids in her hair for 2 days and just took them out. Bitch stole my look! Is it only me or do I look like my dog in the first picture?!

Just like people, dogs have different learning abilities. Some dogs learn quickly, some slowly, and. March 7, Facebook Twitter Instagram Pinterest. View this post on Instagram. More From Cesar's Way Videos. When the owners' mouths were concealed, participants were correct 73 percent of the time. But when the eyes of either the humans or the dogs were blacked out, the participants' accuracy fell to the level of random chance -- around 50 percent either when the human's eyes were blacked out, or when the dog's were.

When participants were shown only the eyes of the dog and the human, their accuracy rose to 74 percent. The results "clearly show that individuals make decisions on dog-owner resemblance primarily by comparing features of the eye region between dogs and owners," Nakajima concluded in his paper.

But why do people wind up looking like their dogs? Nakajima told HuffPost that "a major reason of the dog-owner facial resemblance is the so-called 'mere exposure effect,'" or the idea that a person might choose to get a dog who looks similar to themselves because of a preference for the familiar. News U.

Politics Joe Biden Congress Extremism. Special Projects Highline. HuffPost Personal Video Horoscopes. Follow Us. Far from being skin-deep, the answer may give you a new appreciation of the intense bonds we humans have forged with our four-legged friends. Indeed, there are some strange and unexpected parallels with the way we choose our other, two-legged life partners.

Gerrard Gethings' portraits of dog show contestants reveal an intimate bond that crosses the boundaries between species Credit: Gerrard Gethings. Michael Roy at the University of California, San Diego was one of the first psychologists to put the idea to the test. Going to three nearby dog parks, he photographed the pooches and the owners separately, and then asked a group of participants to try to match them up.

Despite no additional cues, he found that they were able to work out who lived with whom with reasonable accuracy. The result has since been repeated many times. Importantly, the resemblance may be slight but noticeable; not all bulldog owners will look like their faces have been squeezed through a wringer. Yet it also shows itself in more subtle features, such as subtle differences in the shapes of the eyes that are shared between pooch and person. Indeed, when the eyes of the photos were covered, it became much harder for participants to make the connection.

Would you put these two together? Given random photos, participants were able to match each pooch to their owner with better-than-chance accuracy Credit: Gerrard Gethings.



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