Roy, M.M. & Christenfeld, N.J.S. (2004). Do dogs resemble their owners? Psychological Science, 15, 361-363. =20 So, do dogs resemble their owners? =20 Three dog parks were visited. Forty-five owners were photographed; their dogs were photographed separately. "Owners were photographed from the waist up, facing forward, wearing whatever clothes they had chosen for going to the park and whatever facial expression they chose for the picture. Dogs were photographed facing forward, with the whole dog visible; they made whatever facial expression they chose, exhibiting rather more lolling tongues than the owners." =20 =20 They found that judges did a pretty good job at matching dog owners with their dogs, but only if the dog was a purebreed. "The judges did not make correct matches by simply matching hairy people with hairy dogs, or big people with big dogs. There was some suggestion that people and pets were similar in apparent friendliness, but the effect was of modest size, and not statistically significant. It may be that the judges used some other more subtle trait, or based their judgments on a more configural analysis of animals. We also cannot know from these data if people can tell whether a particular person is an owner of a dog, as opposed to, say, a weasel."
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