In the Study of Dogs and Their Owners,Samuel Gosling and His

question 15

Multiple Choice

In the study of dogs and their owners,Samuel Gosling and his colleagues found

• A)dogs do not have personalities.
• B)the owners and neutral observers could not agree on the dogs' personalities.
• C)all of the dogs had similar personality traits.
• D)the dog owners and the neutral observers all agreed strongly in their ratings of the dogs' personalities along four of the Big Five dimensions.

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