Just a fun story: We got a new leather couch and my dad didn't want our doggo to lie on it, cause she has sharp claws. She was confused at first, but somehow realised that it was the leather that she wasn't allowed to jump on. The next thing we saw was her sitting on a pillow ON the couch, with her body curled up tight just to make sure that no part of her touches the couch. She even gave us a look like "Technically I'm not on the couch!)
"It's that trait that makes you work hard and make responsible decisions..." me: *looking uncomfortably around* "Yes. Yes, as a human, I clearly have that trait. Yes..."
exactly, that’s why Brit *didn’t* say it was a key metric that separated us from animals; it was just a thing past biologists thought was different between humans and animals, but that some humans had a lot of and other humans had less of, and some humans probably had none whatsoever of... that’s how she implied that The Big Five worked. if you hadn’t already guessed, i have 100% of my The Big Five points invested in the Neuroticism category 😅
I wouldn’t. I have alot of trouble figuring out my future because well my interests just aren’t viable enough for a job.. i like writing stories for example yet unless you want to self publish books as a hobby you can’t do anything with it.. and journalism won’t work either because i’m a huge introvert... so doing interviews is just a big nope,..
The next thing you're going to tell me is Humans are animals and we evolved from similar based species.... Seriously though, My mind went to squirrels and they stashing food for the winter.
I'm surprised that wasn't mentioned. I guess maybe that's not something that distincts squirrels from other squirrels though. So it's a species thing and not a personality thing. But maybe if we looked at what kind of food they stored and how neat it was that would be a way to measure it?
@@UshioKiss We might be able to measure how vigilant individual squirrels are-- do they spend a more or less time observing an area for potential squirrel spies before hiding their nuts?
Althea Unertl aha! Yes and squirrel spies. And maybe even trickery. Bury the nuts here and then dig them up and relocate them to the secret stash area when nobody is looking.
I think most ppl who spend some time with other animals have felt this. There are a few stray cats in my neighborhood and they definitely have different personalities. One of them has always been pretty social with humans since he was a kitten. He loves attention and is very playful, even as an adult. There's another one who's more cautious and slow to warm up to ppl.
I feel like humans aren't trying to distinguish ourselves as the "most special". I feel like we're always looking for creatures like us. That's why this is exciting.
noodle dew i mean i am.. it exites me because i prefer being around animals over being with other humans mainly because humans often judge you and i can never grasp what’s going on in their heads.. animals however it’s easier for me to understand them
A pair of birds nested in a tree in front of my house. It noticed us watching and used a vine to obscure our view of the nest and the three baby birds inside
Had a Dalmatian, and some ten years later, a Cockateil. With both had an occasion.where we had to leave them home alone, (leaving Fri, back on Sun.) Both times left plenty of water, and food in case of unforeseen delays.( The dog was outside w/a dog house). Both critters did not eat a speck of food until we returned. Sure seemed like they were planning ahead, in case we never came back.
@@Starfloofle one of my childhood dogs went on a hunger strike when we went away on a visit to grandma's. One of my aunties stayed home with him but he didn't eat, ended up at the vet, i.v.ed and fed by a tube...after that he came with and we drove to visit.
My parents used to have a pretty introverted dog. In fact it seemed almost like it had autism. He kept to himself, almost never barked, he probably barked only a few handfuls of times in his life, and then it was usually just a single bark seemingly more an expression of suprise than a wish to communicate. He was intelligent and could learn tricks but he was only motivated by treats and completely ignored social rewards like praise. He had a special interest in horses which he liked to loook at and seemed comfortable around, and he liked to chase rabbits and hares and other smaller animals. But most dogs and other animals and human children he was rather indifferent to or uncomfortable with. I think he liked horses and adult humans, the older the better because they are calm and more predictable.
I have had a horse and a dog that both had a sense of humor, they played tricks on other animals and on people just to observe the reaction. The horse was an American Saddlebred, the dog was a shelter-rescue pit bull.
i feel like this is one of those "duh" moments. it took scientists a lot of effort to figure out what we intuitively have known all along. my dogs have very prominent personalities, and no two are alike. don't get me wrong, i just think this is one of the times where scientific understanding trails reality/human intuition
@@GreatBigBore put the pitch fork down my man, same team. i'm a paying member of scishow, believe me we agree that we can not depend upon human intuition alone. that said, we also can not completely disregard it as not relevant. after all, it is the basis of all discovery
Exactly.. we have alot of different animals and they all are very different our 4 cats for example the oldest is a sweetheart but does like his alone time.. he’s often cold and does really like to crawl under your clothes and fall asleep there he also loves meeting new people as he will always come over sniff around a bit and say hi to them. Then the second cat is way more introverted he loves cuddles but is very picky about with whom he cuddles if he doesn’t know you he will run away and hide. He’s quite easily startled too and he knows how to open doors. Then our third cat is a bit of a grump he prefers lazing around over playing whenever the others play he’ll just be watching from a high place kind of like an old man watching kids do stupid things on the street. However whenever he wants to cuddle he comes to you. He’s also the only one of the older one that would never steal your food as he’ll ask for it but if he doesn’t get it he’s fine with it too.. (he’ll tap your arm when you’re eating to say hey can i please have some) the only thing he’d ever steal is milk if you are drinking it.. he’ll just dive in on that like a couple of kids on candy. Then finally our youngest she is the type that follows you around everywhere she is very vocal and is always friendly.. though she loves to play she also loves just curling up on your lap.. she never touches your food (she’ll sniff it but then decide that it’s not to her liking.. she’s a bit of a diva when it comes to her food) however she can be a bit pressuring when it comes to asking attention towards the other cats wich the others sometimes dislike wich ends up in them swatting her wich well since she is basically fearless (she is the kind of cat that would just have a staring contest with a growling dog twice the size of her and just not care at all) she’ll jus stand there and look at them like bruh i’m trying to groom you/play with you.. accept my love because i won’t stop untill you do. She is absolutely the most adorable sweetheart ever though
You could always just play them some music- cows _love_ music! Or combine the two and teach them to flick their ears to the music or something. lol Really, though, I highly recommend looking up videos of cows reacting to music if you feel like smiling. Some cows even sway or bob their head while they listen! 😊🐄🎶
We had a fox terrier when i was a kid and we gave her some towels to sleep and play with. One day my mother decide to throw away one of her towel that was too old and dirty. Once my dog found out she was missing a towel, she was furious. She brought the rest of her towels up to my mother and literally swing it on the ground and looked at her, like demanding her where her towel is. My mother was able to outwit our little dog by asking her, "where is your towel? did you lost your towel?" Our dog looked confused at first and then my mother even offered to help her find the towel. Of course it was gone but at least our didnt blame my mother anymore.
Oh gosh terriers. We had a little mop of a terrier that figured out the best way to get everyone involved in a game of chase was to steal bras, specifically bras, from the freshly cleaned laundry and start to aggressively chew... while running. This absolutely cartoonish scene played out in our household on a weekly basis.
I can see a lot of this with my dog, Charley… when Charley sees something new ie a baby for the 1* time, the Roomba (robot vacuum) for the 1* time, a new sound, smell.. I can actually watch him process it. I can see in his expression « I’ve never seen this thing before », it’s really interesting and endearing
Everything is obvious to a non-skeptic, especially in hindsight. Science is based on skepticism, on being critical. Just cos you think your pets seem orderly doesn't prove anything. For a pretty blatant example, it's pretty "obvious" that heavier bodies fall faster than lighter ones. Then someone (Galileo) actually had the appropriately scientific mindset to question that, test it and...guess what he found? Yeah... Real science is about rigour, not lazy guesses.
@nothanks + it's important to be a skeptic to do research without bias. If they assume that conscientiousness is seen in animals, they might be biased thus assessing it wrong :) Edit: was a spelling error
My cat growls and eventually hisses at certain words because he would KNOW he can't have something or has done something wrong. "Come on" (when he needed to go outside or get off something) is an example and something he absolutely hates hearing.
"Experts" finding out something pet owners have known since the dawn of time. I currently live with 5 dogs, 4 cats, and 3 Guinea pigs. Some of these think they are human
As a non-native speaker I immensely appreciate and praise you for using thr correct, international spelling of 'extraversion'. The American linguistically nonsensical spelling with O is just so jarring and it's awesome to see that you care about such little details.
I observed personality traits in my pet mantises. Three orchid mantises of the same age, two boys and one girl: The slightly smaller boy was very energetic and looked downright panicked if I kept him in a cup. He'd run circles around the lid, bumping into the sides, frantically trying to get somewhere. (For this reason, I moved him out of the cup and into a 30x30x30cm terrarium.) He also did a lot of jumping when I took him out of the terrarium, constantly looking at things decimetres away, judging the distance, and jumping to them. The slightly larger boy started his time with me in a 30x30c30cm terrarium, but always hid at the back of it and behind leaves. I moved him into a cup and he stopped trying to hide, just chilling in plain view. He only ever jumped to get away from me. x) I mostly left him to himself as a result. As for the girl, whenever she saw me looking at her, she stared back and flattened herself. She might have been scared and trying to hide, but at the time I interpreted it more as threatening, like a cat flattening its ears, crouching low, and hissing. I called her grumpy (and mostly left her alone.) However, when she was older, she fell from a moult and was injured. I did my best to care for her until her next (and possibly final) moult and during that time she was surprisingly cuddly. Sadly she didn't survive that next moult, but I did everything I could to give her a comfortable life.
Glad to hear biologists admitted that we have more in common with animals than we though. Now can we get the linguists to stop moving the goalposts on the definition of language just to make it so it only applies to humans? Syntax and grammar exist in animal communication, and there's even a bird species that will attack each other for making mistakes in their calls.
I think that the bad posture in dogs and their learning ability might be because the dog is dealing with weight or design problems that other dogs aren't. Unless you accounted for things like that and used very physically similar dogs of the same breed.
Complex language isn't even unique to us. We can't exactly understand the "language" of most animals, and if we're talking solely about vocalizations, a lot of sea mammals and rodents have remarkably complex vocalized communication. I think that for most animals, though, their languages are more than just sounds. We have 'body language', but for us it's usually just an additive, like salt, it adds flavor but isn't necessary. But for them it's as integral to their communication as any other word is for us. Abstraction though... Well, I guess they haven't really... *had* to think abstractly like us, I guess? Pretty sure we developed these things as problem solving skills and stuff because we had to make up for our weaknesses, probably when hunting. It's human nature to fight dirty, basically LOL
I refer to myself as a conscience flake. Now even more I feel like a child of the universe...part of it all. Positive vibes from New Hampshire and remember to be kind to each other and yourself during this pandemic, social and environmental crisis
I didn't even think of conscientiousness as a thing in animals but, now that you mention it, my green cheek is way more conscientious than my sun conjur lol. Example: green bird only poos off the side of things and asks to be put back onto cage to do a poo. Orange birb poos everywhere instantly, especially after flying to another spot in the house
It's funny cos orange birb performs tricks way sooner than green birb. I thought green birb was just dumb but then one day I realized green birb actually does all the things I teach her, just not when I'm looking. Example: flight training green birb, green birb refuses to fly anywhere while I'm around, just begs me to put her places. But when I am not around, she flies anywhere she wants since flight training. Turns out she expects me to carry her everywhere when I'm around and knows if she begs enough I'll do it
Their personalities are more like ours ( regarding what we thought ) but it does not mean they are really close to us It is just a simple form of conscientiousness ( what a hard word people !! ) Yet, that makes all sense because we - earth creatures - have common grounds by logic
My crested gecko is quite the introvert, even if he doesn't shout his INTJ status on social media. Very happy to just hang out, swing from his plants, eat, hide and sleep.
I am going to assume some species do things in more orderly fashion and some don't have something to do with the genetics they inherited. Of course I could be looking it at the wrong way. I just can't believe placing eggs neatly provide any survival advantages. The nest is not like my room where I can misplace something and not finding it when I need it.
My dog plans ahead all the time. He waits to ask me to be let outside until I'm very busy, hoping I'll forget about him being out there, giving him time to dig in his favorite hole. I love that jerk.
wonder if conscientiousness plays a part in how much time cats and dogs spend grooming themselves? my border collie mix grooms her paws and butt obsessively and tries to avoid getting dirty, but a cat I babysat didn't spend a lot of time grooming himself and would even kick poop outside the litter box...
@3:57 One Bee to another: _Yep, it's fine. We'll get to Tues...._ *Honey time!* I fricken laughed out loud! _Honey Time_ - I'm definitely using that - as soon as I can leave my house!
I feel as though this video only described the good parts of being high in conscientiousness, and not the benefits of being low. It's not a scale where being high or low is ultimately better or worse, or evolution would've gotten rid of the scale rather quick.
I work in a small grocery store. Last week I saw one of the little kids for the first time since all this started. He got 3 inches taller, turned 4and stayed with mom the whole time,(not normally his thing)he asked me to do thumbs up instead of high fives and told me that he was wearing his mask to keep us safe. I was relieved to hear his family was weathering the pandemic...last year both sets of grandparents moved in, due to other health issues.
"Some cats love cuddling some don't want anything to do with you" AKA some cats love to cuddle while some cats are fine with being near their loved ones or of course she could mean the owner assumes their cat has the same needs as a dog and mistreats them but could be my own bias.
I hope a day comes when we can uplift our animal kin and all communicate with each other just as us humans do. Sure, we'll need to destroy our *own* language barrier first, so that's a long way off, but... At the end of the day most animals are really just much-less-smart individuals (or less focused-smart, let's face it we're not as brilliant as we like to think, we just hyperspecialized our talents lol) much like us. ...Well unless it's a hive mind, in which case it's kinda hard to *entirely* make parallels here, but still lol
Are animals that store food for over the winter not thinking ahead and being responsible? A person's personality can be stubborn and independent. It would be interesting to know the exact definition of why a human has a personality but the same stubborn and independent traits are instead called instinct when talking about animals. Maybe the shift needs to be looking at human behaviors like attaining wealth and property in the same light as building a nest and look at fashion/dance/arts the same way science examines mating rituals that utilize found objects and elaborate calls or movements. If those are all things classified as instinct in animals, why isn't that just human instinct then that drives people to make art and seek comforts? Are instinct and personality so divided or is it easy to see how those two things can easily overlap and blend? My dog would come get me from where she was laying down and coax me upstairs if we were still downstairs and I was staying up too late into the night. Sometimes she would pretend to sleep and tell me that it was time to sleep and so she would fake snore if we were in bed but I was still on my phone or reading and not sleeping yet. She was incredible. She was nearly thirteen years old when she had to be put to sleep a week ago. She was given to me as a surprise when she was a little under 2 months old. She was a rescue. To me, she definitely had personality.
Point: there reasonably MUST be some evolutionary advantage (at least at times and under certain circumstances) to DISORDERLY / NON-CONSCIENTIOUS behavior; otherwise it would not be so universally exhibited among so many species. (i.e. if it were NEVER an advantage, it would have been selected out (at least of the vast majority), LONG ago.)
Please like this comment so SciShow can see it! Hey SciShow Psych! I was wondering if you could do an education video on Purely Obsessive Compulsive Disorder aka PURE-O. It’s something I have and I’ve always wished I had a video on that I could show someone to explain what exactly it means. I think it would help a lot to educate others on this very serious mental illness and the way people suffer mentally because of it. There is one other video I saw that did a decent job of explaining it, but they could’ve done better. Please consider doing a video on it. Thank you.
Humans make "meta-tools" (tools for making other tools), and we appear to have invented "true [abstract] language" about 50,000 years ago. Other than that, I doubt there are any fundamental differences. But that's only my opinion, and what do I know--I'm only human. ;)
I'm not sure whether I misunderstand your claim but I would say there is no knowable distinction between instinct driven neatness and the planning we do. From the outside humans may appear to be doing the same
Artificial neural networks have those qualities too. Human programmers can make with their very own hands something with a "personality", if you define the word like that. Does this make you compassionate about the 95 Mb file on my computer, that someone made in a week because of boredom, that can be endlessly copied or reinvented by youtube tutorial, but that has a "personality"? Everything feels pain, and curiosity, and has some plans and personality if you define it wide enough - including mold and infectious diseases.
every trait we have that we think is solely Human turns out to not be. it's almost like the only human trait is self-centered arrogance. which i am displaying here by calling other humans self-centered and arrogant ironic
Animals are the best. I can spend lifetimes with them and my one human friend. Yeah I'm an introvert. I think domestication was an introvert invention. Humans are bothersome I'm going to feed this spider and try to befriend this fuzzy thing.
Breeding for companionship may have roots in that, yeah. But the original motive behind domestication was probably largely pragmatic, if not outright accidental, haha.
@@Starfloofle Actually the accidental was my main thought. Socially someone may be awkward but with animals your free to love and be loved. Though I was the kid that held every insect and has never stopped liking every animal. I even thank the animals I eat. Modern society has shown that introverts are rare. I'm lucky to have a wife.. We've been seeing Male chimps attempting animal husbandry. Long way off but you can see the outsiders in even that simple culture just being friendly. Btw wolves didn't help us first we feed them until we where compatriots. And my dogs have hidden asking me to solve an issue far more often than protected me from anything. Though them pressed to your thigh while investigating a noise is the oldest crime duo lol.
