People Adopt Their Dogs In The Same Way They Choose Their Partners
(World News Science)

When it comes to choosing a forever furry friend, most people tend to exhibit the same habits as choosing a romantic partner: what they say they want in a dog (or partner) doesn´t always define how they decide on one. A team of psychologists who typically study how people pick their partners chose to apply their tools to understand how people adopt their dogs in an effort to improve the success of animal shelters. Publishing her work in Behavior Research Methods, study author Samantha Cohen says she was...