Dogs' Social Referencing towards Owners and Strangers

Social referencing is a process whereby an individual uses the emotional information provided by an informant about a novel object/stimulus to guide his/her own future behaviour towards it. In this study adult dogs were tested in a social referencing paradigm involving a potentially scary object wit...

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Published in:PloS one 2012-10, Vol.7 (10), p.e47653
Main Authors: Merola, Isabella, Prato-Previde, Emanuela, Marshall-Pescini, Sarah
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Altruism
Animal behavior
Animal communication
Animals
Attention - physiology
Babies
Behavior, Animal - physiology
Biology
Communication
Cues
Dogs
Dogs - psychology
Emotional behavior
Emotions
Fear - psychology
Female
Human behavior
Human-Animal Bond
Humans
Linear Models
Male
Mood
Pets
Pets - psychology
Referencing
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Social Perception
Statistics, Nonparametric
Studies
Veterinary Science
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