Dog's 'Guilty Look' Is All In Your Head
Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 12:49
in Psychology & Sociology
Can you tell when your dog has done something wrong by his appearance? Not really, says Alexandra Horowitz, Assistant Professor from Barnard College in New York, in Behavioural Processes. It's mostly what you want to see. Horowitz was able to show that the human tendency to attribute a "guilty look" to a dog was not due to whether the dog was indeed guilty. Instead, people see 'guilt' in a dog's body language when they believe the dog has done something it shouldn't have – even if the dog is in fact completely innocent of any offense. read more
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