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| Title |
Dogs (Canis familiaris) adjust their social behaviour to the differential role of inanimate interactive agents
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| Published in |
Animal Cognition, November 2015
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10071-015-0939-0 |
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| Authors |
Eszter Petró, Judit Abdai, Anna Gergely, József Topál, Ádám Miklósi |
| Abstract |
Dogs are able to flexibly adjust their social behaviour to situation-specific characteristics of their human partner's behaviour in problem situations. However, dogs do not necessarily detect the specific role played by the human in a particular situation: they may form expectations about their partners' behaviour based on previous experiences with them. Utilising inanimate objects (UMO-unidentified moving object) as interacting agents offers new possibilities for investigating social behaviour, because in this way we can remove or control the influence of previous experience with the partner. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether dogs are able to recognise the different roles of two UMOs and are able to adjust their communicative behaviour towards them. In the learning phase of the experiment, dogs were presented with a two-way food-retrieval problem in which two UMOs, which differed in their physical appearance and abilities, helped the dog obtain a piece of food in their own particular manner. After a short experience with both UMOs, dogs in the test phase faced one of the problems in the presence of both inanimate agents. Overall, dogs displayed similar levels of gazing behaviour towards the UMOs, but in the first test they looked, approached and touched the relevant partner first. This rapid adjustment of social behaviour towards UMOs suggests that dogs may generalise their experiences with humans to unfamiliar agents and are able to select the appropriate partner when facing a problem situation. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Hong Kong | 1 | 10% |
| Canada | 1 | 10% |
| Hungary | 1 | 10% |
| Unknown | 7 | 70% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 60% |
| Scientists | 3 | 30% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 10% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Hungary | 1 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 57 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 10 | 17% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 12% |
| Researcher | 5 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 5% |
| Other | 10 | 17% |
| Unknown | 11 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 13 | 22% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 12 | 20% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 4 | 7% |
| Computer Science | 4 | 7% |
| Environmental Science | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 5 | 8% |
| Unknown | 19 | 32% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 May 2021.
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