{"id":16099,"date":"2025-01-16T10:16:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T15:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?p=16099"},"modified":"2025-05-05T10:36:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:36:51","slug":"why-do-some-people-look-like-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/2025\/why-do-some-people-look-like-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"The resemblance between people and their pets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        The resemblance between people and their pets\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>&#8220;In the Disney animated film&nbsp;<em>101 Dalmatians<\/em>,<em>&nbsp;<\/em>there\u2019s an amusing sequence in which lookalike pairs of people and their dogs parade across the screen, the resemblances between human and canine in both shape and facial expression comically exaggerated. It\u2019s funny because it plays off the impression many people have that pets look like the owners who care for them.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jim Davies<\/strong> explores what\u2019s really behind this impression.&nbsp; Do we just think that dogs resemble their owners because we only tend to notice and remember such extraordinary instances, and ignore it when they don\u2019t look alike? This is called the \u201cavailability heuristic.\u201d We forget what\u2019s unremarkable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nautil.us\/why-do-some-people-look-like-their-dogs-1175313\/\">Read the full article published in Nautilus.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In the Disney animated film&nbsp;101 Dalmatians,&nbsp;there\u2019s an amusing sequence in which lookalike pairs of people and their dogs parade across the screen, the resemblances between human and canine in both shape and facial expression comically exaggerated. It\u2019s funny because it plays off the impression many people have that pets look like the owners who care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16099"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16183,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16099\/revisions\/16183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}