Dogs found to engage in mimicry and emotional contagion with one another
Wednesday, December 23, 2015 - 10:58
in Psychology & Sociology
A trio of researchers with the University of Pisa has found during a study they conducted, that dogs engage in emotional contagion and rapid mimicry with one another. In their paper published in Royal Society Open Science, the team describes their field study and why their results indicate that dogs may be capable of empathy.