The resemblance between people and their pets
“In the Disney animated film 101 Dalmatians, there鈥檚 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鈥檚 funny because it plays off the impression many people have that pets look like the owners who care for them.”
Jim Davies explores what鈥檚 really behind this impression. 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鈥檛 look alike? This is called the 鈥渁vailability heuristic.鈥 We forget what鈥檚 unremarkable.