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What Your Favorite 'Sesame Street' Character Says About You

We asked doctors to psychoanalyze the personality traits of your favorite furry friends. Do these tongue-in-cheek assessments sound like anyone you know? (10 Photos)

Jennifer Merritt on Nov 6, 2009 at 11:36AM

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What Your Favorite 'Sesame Street' Character Says About You

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Big Bird

"He is a sugary controller," says Dr. David Eigen, who holds a Ph.D. in transpersonal pyschology, about the good-natured Big Bird. What does that mean? "He's a control freak, but it's sugar-coated. He's a rescuer, but it's ungrounded. He won't take off the rose-colored glasses."