How Are Dog People And Cat People Different?
University of Texas researchers conducted an online study that asked if respondents considered themselves dog people, cat people, both, or neither. The results are analyzed according to various personality inclinations, including openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
According to these research findings, dog people tend to be more social and outgoing, while cat people are more neurotic, but also more open (i.e. creative or philosophical). Dog people scored higher on extraversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness measures and lower on neuroticism and openness than cat people.
In another University of British Columbia study, researchers found that people may have physical features in common with the animals they own, while another study by Michael Roy and Nicholas Christenfeld found that research participants could match photographs of companion animal keepers to their purebred dogs two-thirds of the time based solely on physical appearance.