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| Title |
Dogs (Canis familiaris) Evaluate Humans on the Basis of Direct Experiences Only
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, October 2012
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0046880 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Marie Nitzschner, Alicia P. Melis, Juliane Kaminski, Michael Tomasello |
| Abstract |
Reputation formation is a key component in the social interactions of many animal species. An evaluation of reputation is drawn from two principal sources: direct experience of an individual and indirect experience from observing that individual interacting with a third party. In the current study we investigated whether dogs use direct and/or indirect experience to choose between two human interactants. In the first experiment, subjects had direct interaction either with a "nice" human (who played with, talked to and stroked the dog) or with an "ignoring" experimenter who ignored the dog completely. Results showed that the dogs stayed longer close to the "nice" human. In a second experiment the dogs observed a "nice" or "ignoring" human interacting with another dog. This indirect experience, however, did not lead to a preference between the two humans. These results suggest that the dogs in our study evaluated humans solely on the basis of direct experience. |
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The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 20 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 20% |
| Turkey | 1 | 5% |
| Australia | 1 | 5% |
| Italy | 1 | 5% |
| Germany | 1 | 5% |
| Japan | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 7 | 35% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 16 | 80% |
| Scientists | 4 | 20% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 109 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Austria | 3 | 3% |
| Hungary | 2 | 2% |
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| Italy | 2 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 96 | 88% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 27 | 25% |
| Researcher | 19 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 14 | 13% |
| Other | 12 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 12 | 11% |
| Other | 15 | 14% |
| Unknown | 10 | 9% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 42 | 39% |
| Psychology | 24 | 22% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 7 | 6% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 4% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 11 | 10% |
| Unknown | 17 | 16% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 45. 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 17 February 2020.
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