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The Impacts of the Presence of an Unfamiliar Dog on Emerging Adults’ Physiological and Behavioral Responses Following Social Exclusion

Research indicates that non-human attachment figures may mitigate the negative consequences of social exclusion. In the current experiment, we examined how the presence of an unfamiliar companion dog in the laboratory effects physiological and behavioral reactions in female emerging adults after soc...

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Autores principales: Papousek, Ilona, Reiter-Scheidl, Katharina, Lackner, Helmut K., Weiss, Elisabeth M., Perchtold-Stefan, Corinna M., Aydin, Nilüfer
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7764974/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33327481
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs10120191
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author Papousek, Ilona
Reiter-Scheidl, Katharina
Lackner, Helmut K.
Weiss, Elisabeth M.
Perchtold-Stefan, Corinna M.
Aydin, Nilüfer
author_facet Papousek, Ilona
Reiter-Scheidl, Katharina
Lackner, Helmut K.
Weiss, Elisabeth M.
Perchtold-Stefan, Corinna M.
Aydin, Nilüfer
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description Research indicates that non-human attachment figures may mitigate the negative consequences of social exclusion. In the current experiment, we examined how the presence of an unfamiliar companion dog in the laboratory effects physiological and behavioral reactions in female emerging adults after social exclusion compared to inclusion. Results revealed the beneficial effects of the dog: Socially excluded participants in the company of a dog showed less aggressive behavior in response to the hot sauce paradigm compared to excluded participants in the control condition. Furthermore, cardiac responses indicated mitigated perception of threat in a subsequent insult episode when a dog was present. The presence of a dog did not impact the most instantaneous, “reflexive” response to the social exclusion as revealed by characteristic cardiac changes. Together, the findings indicate that the presence of a companion dog takes effect in a later, reflective period following a social exclusion experience, which implicates relevant social elaboration and appraisal processes.
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spelling pubmed-77649742020-12-27 The Impacts of the Presence of an Unfamiliar Dog on Emerging Adults’ Physiological and Behavioral Responses Following Social Exclusion Papousek, Ilona Reiter-Scheidl, Katharina Lackner, Helmut K. Weiss, Elisabeth M. Perchtold-Stefan, Corinna M. Aydin, Nilüfer Behav Sci (Basel) Article Research indicates that non-human attachment figures may mitigate the negative consequences of social exclusion. In the current experiment, we examined how the presence of an unfamiliar companion dog in the laboratory effects physiological and behavioral reactions in female emerging adults after social exclusion compared to inclusion. Results revealed the beneficial effects of the dog: Socially excluded participants in the company of a dog showed less aggressive behavior in response to the hot sauce paradigm compared to excluded participants in the control condition. Furthermore, cardiac responses indicated mitigated perception of threat in a subsequent insult episode when a dog was present. The presence of a dog did not impact the most instantaneous, “reflexive” response to the social exclusion as revealed by characteristic cardiac changes. Together, the findings indicate that the presence of a companion dog takes effect in a later, reflective period following a social exclusion experience, which implicates relevant social elaboration and appraisal processes. MDPI 2020-12-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7764974/ /pubmed/33327481 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs10120191 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Weiss, Elisabeth M.
Perchtold-Stefan, Corinna M.
Aydin, Nilüfer
The Impacts of the Presence of an Unfamiliar Dog on Emerging Adults’ Physiological and Behavioral Responses Following Social Exclusion
title The Impacts of the Presence of an Unfamiliar Dog on Emerging Adults’ Physiological and Behavioral Responses Following Social Exclusion
title_full The Impacts of the Presence of an Unfamiliar Dog on Emerging Adults’ Physiological and Behavioral Responses Following Social Exclusion
title_fullStr The Impacts of the Presence of an Unfamiliar Dog on Emerging Adults’ Physiological and Behavioral Responses Following Social Exclusion
title_full_unstemmed The Impacts of the Presence of an Unfamiliar Dog on Emerging Adults’ Physiological and Behavioral Responses Following Social Exclusion
title_short The Impacts of the Presence of an Unfamiliar Dog on Emerging Adults’ Physiological and Behavioral Responses Following Social Exclusion
title_sort impacts of the presence of an unfamiliar dog on emerging adults’ physiological and behavioral responses following social exclusion
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7764974/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33327481
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs10120191
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