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Dogs can infer implicit information from human emotional expressions
The ability to infer emotional states and their wider consequences requires the establishment of relationships between the emotional display and subsequent actions. These abilities, together with the use of emotional information from others in social decision making, are cognitively demanding and re...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8940826/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34390430 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10071-021-01544-x |
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author | Albuquerque, Natalia Mills, Daniel S. Guo, Kun Wilkinson, Anna Resende, Briseida |
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description | The ability to infer emotional states and their wider consequences requires the establishment of relationships between the emotional display and subsequent actions. These abilities, together with the use of emotional information from others in social decision making, are cognitively demanding and require inferential skills that extend beyond the immediate perception of the current behaviour of another individual. They may include predictions of the significance of the emotional states being expressed. These abilities were previously believed to be exclusive to primates. In this study, we presented adult domestic dogs with a social interaction between two unfamiliar people, which could be positive, negative or neutral. After passively witnessing the actors engaging silently with each other and with the environment, dogs were given the opportunity to approach a food resource that varied in accessibility. We found that the available emotional information was more relevant than the motivation of the actors (i.e. giving something or receiving something) in predicting the dogs’ responses. Thus, dogs were able to access implicit information from the actors’ emotional states and appropriately use the affective information to make context-dependent decisions. The findings demonstrate that a non-human animal can actively acquire information from emotional expressions, infer some form of emotional state and use this functionally to make decisions. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10071-021-01544-x. |
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spelling | pubmed-89408262022-04-07 Dogs can infer implicit information from human emotional expressions Albuquerque, Natalia Mills, Daniel S. Guo, Kun Wilkinson, Anna Resende, Briseida Anim Cogn Original Paper The ability to infer emotional states and their wider consequences requires the establishment of relationships between the emotional display and subsequent actions. These abilities, together with the use of emotional information from others in social decision making, are cognitively demanding and require inferential skills that extend beyond the immediate perception of the current behaviour of another individual. They may include predictions of the significance of the emotional states being expressed. These abilities were previously believed to be exclusive to primates. In this study, we presented adult domestic dogs with a social interaction between two unfamiliar people, which could be positive, negative or neutral. After passively witnessing the actors engaging silently with each other and with the environment, dogs were given the opportunity to approach a food resource that varied in accessibility. We found that the available emotional information was more relevant than the motivation of the actors (i.e. giving something or receiving something) in predicting the dogs’ responses. Thus, dogs were able to access implicit information from the actors’ emotional states and appropriately use the affective information to make context-dependent decisions. The findings demonstrate that a non-human animal can actively acquire information from emotional expressions, infer some form of emotional state and use this functionally to make decisions. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10071-021-01544-x. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021-08-14 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8940826/ /pubmed/34390430 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10071-021-01544-x Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Albuquerque, Natalia Mills, Daniel S. Guo, Kun Wilkinson, Anna Resende, Briseida Dogs can infer implicit information from human emotional expressions |
title | Dogs can infer implicit information from human emotional expressions |
title_full | Dogs can infer implicit information from human emotional expressions |
title_fullStr | Dogs can infer implicit information from human emotional expressions |
title_full_unstemmed | Dogs can infer implicit information from human emotional expressions |
title_short | Dogs can infer implicit information from human emotional expressions |
title_sort | dogs can infer implicit information from human emotional expressions |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8940826/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34390430 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10071-021-01544-x |
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