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The ability to recognize dog emotions depends on the cultural milieu in which we grow up
- Source :
- Scientific Reports, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2019), Scientific Reports
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Nature Publishing Group, 2019.
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Abstract
- Inter-specific emotion recognition is especially adaptive when species spend a long time in close association, like dogs and humans. Here, we comprehensively studied the human ability to recognize facial expressions associated with dog emotions (hereafter, emotions). Participants were presented with pictures of dogs, humans and chimpanzees, showing angry, fearful, happy, neutral and sad emotions, and had to assess which emotion was shown, and the context in which the picture had been taken. Participants were recruited among children and adults with different levels of general experience with dogs, resulting from different personal (i.e. dog ownership) and cultural experiences (i.e. growing up or being exposed to a cultural milieu in which dogs are highly valued and integrated in human lives). Our results showed that some dog emotions such as anger and happiness are recognized from early on, independently of experience. However, the ability to recognize dog emotions is mainly acquired through experience. In adults, the probability of recognizing dog emotions was higher for participants grown up in a cultural milieu with a positive attitude toward dogs, which may result in different passive exposure, interest or inclination toward this species. Methods - Participants - Materials - Procedures - Statistics Results - Model 1 - Children - Model 2 - Adults - Speraman exact tests Discussion
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
0301 basic medicine
Pan troglodytes
media_common.quotation_subject
Emotions
lcsh:Medicine
Context (language use)
Anger
Article
Developmental psychology
03 medical and health sciences
Dogs
Human behaviour
Animals
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology
Emotion recognition
Child
Association (psychology)
lcsh:Science
media_common
Facial expression
Multidisciplinary
Human-Animal Bond
05 social sciences
lcsh:R
Recognition, Psychology
Passive Exposure
Animal behaviour
Facial Expression
030104 developmental biology
Child, Preschool
Happiness
Female
lcsh:Q
Positive attitude
Psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20452322
- Volume :
- 9
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Scientific Reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....bfcadab88c2ee454992500c747604f9c