Psychological Science, the journal of the American Psychological Society that focuses on empirical research in psychology and prides itself on being at the vanguard of research in matters of the thinking variety has once again stolen the march on its competitors. The May issue reports on ground breaking research by Nicholas Christenfeld and Michael Roy of University of California, San Diego.

It will take a great weight off your mind to know that, yes, dogs do look like their masters. Well its true for pedigree dogs anyway, where the prospective master can accurately predict what the puppy they are purchasing will look like when it groups up.

Those of you, like The Green Man himself, who have a dog of questionable parentage will be relieved to know that the study also ruled out the theory that dogs grow to look like their masters or perhaps that masters grow to look like their dogs. There was no correlation between how long a person has had a dog and how much they looked like it.

The Green Man's dog will be mighty relieved.

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