The suspicion that your dog may gradually take over your personality (as can in part be the case between two spouses) is ultimately not a simple suspicion.
New Austrian scientific research confirms that pets can acquire basic characteristics of their masters' psychosynthesis, especially if the latter are stressful, neurotic and generally negative types.
On the other hand, the opposite can also happen. Mostly relaxed and friendly dogs can transmit this positive personality to their owners, helping them to reduce stress.
Researchers at the University of Vienna, led by Dr. Iris Somberl, published in the journal PLoS One, according to the BBC, studied more than 100 pairs of dogs and humans that have lived together for years.
Animals and humans underwent various tests, such as measuring heart rate and the stress hormone cortisol levels. Psychological tests were also performed on both humans and dogs (on behalf of the latter, their masters answered!), So that all without exception are classified into the five major personality types: neurotic, extroverted, open, friendly, responsible.
The main conclusion that emerged is that men influence them by copying key characteristics of their personality. Humans have the greatest influence - for better or worse - on dogs.
"Our findings fit in well with our experience: owners and dogs are social dualities and interact," Somberl said.
The Austrian researcher pointed out that dogs are sensitive to the feelings of their masters and can therefore feel appropriate by adjusting their behavior, something that can be explained by the long evolutionary coexistence of the two species for many thousands of years.
Source RES-EIA