Cats or Dogs Test
You are here because one of your friends linked you to their Cats or Dogs Test result:
Take the TestResults:
Your friend's personality is the closest to that of a male cat person.
Take the TestExplanation of Traits:
Openness: High scorers are imaginative, daydreaming, intellectual, artistic, and like adventure and abstractions. Low scorers and practical, realistic, factual, sensible, down-to-earth, and prefer familiarity and routine.
Your friend's score is High.
Conscientiousness: High scorers are organized, reliable, self-controlled, orderly, cautious, and they have a strong sense of duty. Low scorers are disorganized, and procrastinating, act on spur-of-the-moment impulses and find rules constraining.
Your friend's score is Low.
Extroversion: High scorers are outgoing, gregarious, enthusiastic, assertive, action-oriented, and social. Low scorers are introverted, reserved, low-key, quiet, disengaged, deliberate, and have an increased need for time alone.
Your friend's score is Low.
Agreeableness: High scorers are considerate, altruistic, friendly, generous, sympathetic, modest, trusting, and helpful. Low scorers are critical, confident, self-interested, skeptical, stubborn, unfriendly, and uncooperative.
Your friend's score is High.
Neuroticism: High scorers are anxious, fearful, tense, nervous, self-conscious, and susceptible to anger and depression. Low scorers are serene, calm, stable, composed, tranquil, poised, and marked by few negative emotions.
Your friend's score is High.
References
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- Gosling, S. D., Sandy, C. J., & Potter, J. (2010). Personalities of self-identified “dog people” and “cat people”. Anthrozoos, 23, 213-222.
- Perrine, R. M., & Osbourne, H. L. (1998). Personality characteristics of dog and cat persons. Anthrozoos, 11, 33-40.
- Rammstedt, B., & John, O. P. (2007). Measuring personality in one minute or less: A 10-item short version of the Big Five Inventory in English and German. Journal of Research in Personality, 41, 203-212.