A comparison of personality traits of gifted word learner and typical border collies.
Dogs
Giftedness
Personality traits
Playfulness
Talent
Journal
Animal cognition
ISSN: 1435-9456
Titre abrégé: Anim Cogn
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 9814573
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2022
Dec 2022
Historique:
received:
23
02
2022
accepted:
15
07
2022
revised:
21
06
2022
pubmed:
6
8
2022
medline:
16
11
2022
entrez:
5
8
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
While personality and cognition are distinct domains, some personality traits may affect the capacity for problem-solving. It was suggested that there is a positive association between the Playfulness trait and problem-solving performance in humans. Studies on giftedness (extremely good capacity in the case of a specific skill), typically aimed to reveal the genetic, experiential, and mental origins of such extreme inter-individual variation. We exploited recent findings on giftedness in a specific cognitive skill, object label learning, in dogs to explore the potential association between this exceptional skill and personality traits. We administered the Dog Personality Questionnaire to 21 gifted dog owners and compared the personality traits of their dogs to those of matched samples of 43 Hungarian and 101 Austrian typical dogs, i.e., dogs lacking this exceptional capacity. Since most Gifted Word Learner dogs are Border collies, we restricted our analysis to dogs of this breed. We hypothesized that the Gifted Word Learner dogs may show higher levels of Playfulness. As expected, we found that the gifted Border collies were rated as more playful than both the Hungarian and Austrian typical ones. Our results suggest that an extremely high level of Playfulness is associated with giftedness in a specific cognitive trait in dogs: the capacity to learn object verbal labels, thus opening new possibilities for comparative research on the relationship between giftedness and personality.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35930164
doi: 10.1007/s10071-022-01657-x
pii: 10.1007/s10071-022-01657-x
pmc: PMC9652199
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1645-1652Subventions
Organisme : National Brain Research Program
ID : 2017-1.2.1-NKP-2017-00002
Organisme : MTA-ELTE Comparative Ethology Research Group
ID : MTA01 031
Organisme : MTA-ELTE 'Lendület/Momentum' Companion Animal Research Group
ID : PH1404/21
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