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	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		What can our pets tell us about ourselves?
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:01:01
	Publish Date:		2016-05-27 00:00:00
	Description:		What can our pets tell us about our own quirks? Researcher Mikel Delgado of the University of California, Berkeley recently looked at how our personality traits align with our relationships with our pets, particularly cats and dogs. So, we basically did a massive survey of pet owners online. So someone who identifies as a cat person is probably going to score higher on the neuroticism scale, which is a measure of things like anxiety and depression and hostility, and also the openness scale, which is kind of your creativity and artistic bent, maybe openness to new ideas, whereas dog people tend to score lower on those scales. On the other hand, dog people tend to score higher on extroversion and agreeableness. So we found, consistent with previous studies, those results, but we also found that people who said they were both a cat and a dog person fell somewhere in between." This was also the first time a survey like this focused solely on the personalities of pet owners, rather than the general population.
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