Here's something I picked up on another forum.  It sounds interesting.  I already sent my email and I thought possibly some here might be interested.

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The University of Texas at Austin is doing a massive research project on temperament and personality in dogs. They need input. If you're interested, please contact them at the information below -- and feel free to cross-post and hand out to your students, etc. Thanks!

I am a Ph.D. student working with Dr. Sam Gosling at UT-Austin and am studying personality and temperament in the domestic dog. Currently, we are designing a questionnaire for the assessment of personality in dogs. Once this questionnaire is completed, we aim to use it to answer a variety of research questions, from what
characterizes the best explosives detection dogs and guide dogs, to what types of breed-specific personality traits truly exist, to whether there are specific types of dogs who often end up in rescues and shelters. However, to create a reliable and valid dog personality questionnaire, we need thousands of dog owners to fill
out the initial version of our on-line questionnaire, which is quite lengthy, and to give us feedback. This is why I'm writing to you!

Although the questionnaire is not yet ready, we are compiling an e-mail list of individuals who would be willing to participate in the study. Once the questionnaire is posted (within a couple weeks), I will e-mail the participant list. For further information about this and other studies, please visit our website at www.animalpersonality.org and click on the Attention Dog Owners! link. To volunteer for the study or if you have any questions, please e-mail me directly at amanda@animalpersonality.org

Please tell all your dog-owning friends about our study!

All the best,
Amanda Jones