Domestic dogs' understanding of human emotional cues

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Domestic dogs' understanding of human emotional cues

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University of Otago

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Otago University Research Archive

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Past research has focused on the ability of domestic dogs to recognise human communicative cues such as human pointing, eye gaze, attachment behaviour, social learning, and responses to affective stimuli. However, there is still much to be learned about dogs’ ability to recognise human emotions. The main objective of this study was to investigate whether domestic dogs understood the emotions expressed by a human experimenter. I examined four emotions (anger, sadness, fear, happiness) and thre...

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Research paper

Research format

Scholarly text / Thesis

Thesis level

Doctoral

Date created

2014

Creator

Yong, Min

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10523/4938

Related subjects

emotions / empathy / social / referencing / joint / attention / emotional / contagion / domestic / dogs / canis / familiaris / matching / gender / acoustic / crying / perception / anger / sad / happy / fear / bimodal / unimodal / dynamic / expressions

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