Dogs' social referencing towards owners and strangers.

Social referencing is a process whereby an individual uses the emotional information provided by an informant about a novel object/stimulus to guide his/her own future behaviour towards it. In this study adult dogs were tested in a social referencing paradigm involving a potentially scary object wit...

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Main Authors: Isabella Merola, Emanuela Prato-Previde, Sarah Marshall-Pescini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3469536?pdf=render