Effect of owner personality and home environment on dog personality

Stephen, J. and Ledger, R., Relinquishing dog owners’ ability to predict behavioural problems in shelter dogs post adoption, Appl. Anim. Behav. Sci. (2006), doi:10.1016/j.applanim.2006.09.012

Some interesting references, to papers by James Serpell, Anthony Podberscek etc and coauthors.

Aggression has been linked to (aggression problems more likely): first-time owners, dogs that sleep near their owners, owners that anthropomorphise and indulge their dogs "anthropomorphic owner attachment"

Less likely to have aggression problems if obedience trained