Your Dog Knows Whether You’re Happy Or Sad
Research conducted at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna shows that dogs can read human expressions and figure out how you’re feeling. It’s the first to conclude that animals other than humans can pick up on detailed emotional facial cues.
The team trained the dogs to recognize people making happy and mad faces, and to prefer one or the other. By showing only half of a face in training and the trials, they tried to prevent the dogs from recognizing the emotional expression as a whole. The team rewarded the dogs for touching the correct face.
After training the dogs to go for either the happy or the angry face, the researchers showed the dogs other sections of faces–for instance, the tops of the happy/sad faces they had previously only seen the bottoms of, or completely new faces showing the same half they’d seen in training. More often than not, the dogs selected the correct expression they’d been assigned in training, proving it was not just a random occurrence.
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burqa February 14th, 2015 at 23:06
Don’t need no study to know that. My cat was the same way…..
burqa February 15th, 2015 at 00:06
Don’t need no study to know that. My cat was the same way…..
edmeyer_able February 14th, 2015 at 23:26
It’s been said that a dog is the only soul that will love it’s master more than it loves itself, miss you Cole https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=416265348415968&set=pb.100000975194978.-2207520000.1423973947.&type=3&theater
fahvel February 15th, 2015 at 04:36
I know the feeling ed.
edmeyer_able February 15th, 2015 at 00:26
It’s been said that a dog is the only soul that will love it’s master more than it loves itself, miss you Cole https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=416265348415968&set=pb.100000975194978.-2207520000.1423973947.&type=3&theater
fahvel February 15th, 2015 at 05:36
I know the feeling ed.
fahvel February 15th, 2015 at 04:36
they get paid for studying anything – why not old news. I went to Cornell Vet about 200 years ago and that was good/old news then.
fahvel February 15th, 2015 at 05:36
they get paid for studying anything – why not old news. I went to Cornell Vet about 200 years ago and that was good/old news then.
Suzanne McFly February 15th, 2015 at 09:26
Yeah, of course they do. When Mommies pissed the babies can easily see it and leave the room before eff bombs start dropping.
Suzanne McFly February 15th, 2015 at 10:26
Yeah, of course they do. When Mommies pissed the babies can easily see it and leave the room before eff bombs start dropping.