Are owners' reports of their dogs' 'guilty look' influenced by the dogs' action and evidence of the misdeed?
Ostojić L1, Tkalčić M2, Clayton NS3.
Behavioural processes.Behav Processes.2015 Feb;111:97-100. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2014.12.010. Epub 2015 Jan 3.
While dog owners claim that their dogs' greeting behaviour after having performed a misdeed indicates the dogs' 'guilt', current experimental evidence suggests that dogs show these 'guilty look' behaviours as a response to being scolded by their owners. Given reports that 'guilty look' behaviours ar
Incentives increase the rate of false but not true secondary confessions from informants with an allegiance to a suspect.
Swanner JK1, Beike DR.
Law and human behavior.Law Hum Behav.2010 Oct;34(5):418-28. doi: 10.1007/s10979-009-9212-x.
One hundred ninety-two students participated in an experimental simulation testing whether incentives would reduce the reluctance of informants to implicate a close other. Half of the students were made to feel interpersonally close to a confederate who either admitted to or denied a misdeed. All st
Anthropomorphisms are regularly used by owners in describing their dogs. Of interest is whether attributions of understanding and emotions to dogs are sound, or are unwarranted applications of human psychological terms to non-humans. One attribution commonly made to dogs is that the "guilty look" sh
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