Dog–human behavioral synchronization: family dogs synchronize their behavior with child family members

Wanser, Shelby H; MacDonald, Megan; Udell, Monique A. R.

doi:10.1007/s10071-020-01454-4

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“…Sharing spaces in the context of a human-dog relationship is essential, as they are both social species. Several studies have been published on dog social cognition, focusing on behavioral synchronization in the dog-human dyad [ 55 , 56 , 57 ]. The dog that daily shares life with human beings acquires cognitive and social skills in relation to the dimensions of the relationship.…”

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Human-Dog Relationship during the First COVID-19 Lockdown in Italy

d’Angelo

Chirico

Sacchettino

et al. 2021

Animals

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The SARS-CoV2 pandemic forced an abrupt interruption of social contacts and interpersonal affective relationships all over the world, according to national directives. Many considerable inconveniences occurred with important repercussions also on the emotional state of people and their pets. We carried out a national survey to evaluate the human-dog relationship in a social isolation context using an adapted version of Monash Dog Owner Relationship Scale, the perception of the dogs’ discomfort by their human owners, and the resilience of the dog through the quantification of symptoms, in time of the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic. The results highlighted that the human-dog interaction was similar during quarantine; however, there was lower owner’s perception of a dog’s cost during the quarantine than before it.

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Human-Dog Relationship during the First COVID-19 Lockdown in Italy

d’Angelo

Chirico

Sacchettino

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“…Family dogs show several functionally human-like social skills and appear to be human-tuned in their social behaviour skills [9,10] and this enables them to achieve a higher level of synchronization when interacting with humans [11]. Dogs are equipped with skills necessary to establish behaviour synchrony [12,13], and they can efficiently use human behaviour as a cue for performing functionally equivalent 'imitative' response [14,15]. There is also empirical evidence suggesting that they can use the emotional information provided by a human about a novel object to guide their own behaviour towards it [16,17].…”

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Social Stimulation by the Owner Increases Dogs’ (Canis familiaris) Social Susceptibility in a Food Choice Task—The Possible Effect of Endogenous Oxytocin Release

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Bolló

Gergely

et al. 2022

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Recent evidence suggests a human-like susceptibility to social influence in dogs. For example, dogs tend to ignore their ‘natural’ preference for the larger amount of food after having seen a human’s explicit preference for a smaller quantity. However, it is still unclear whether this tendency to conform to the partner’s behaviour can be influenced by social stimuli and/or the neurohormone oxytocin as primers to prosocial predispositions. In Experiment I, eighty two dogs were tested using Prato-Previde et al.’s food quantity preference task. In Experiment I, we investigated in a 2 × 2 design how (i) a 10-minute-long social stimulation by the owner versus a socially ignoring pre-treatment as well as (ii) on-line ostensive communications versus no communication during task demonstration affect dogs’ (N = 82) choices in the abovementioned food choice task. Results indicate that the owners’ pre-treatment with social stimuli (eye contact, petting) increased dogs’ susceptibility to the experimenter’s food preference, but the salient ostensive addressing signals accompanying human demonstration masked this social priming effect. In Experiment II, N = 32 dogs from the subjects of Experiment I were retested after oxytocin (OT) or placebo (PL) pre-treatments. This experiment aimed to study whether intranasal administration of oxytocin as compared to placebo treatment would similarly increase dogs’ tendency to re-enact the human demonstrator’s counterproductive choice in the same task. Results showed an increased susceptibility to the human preference in the OT group, suggesting that both socially stimulating pre-treatment and the intranasal administration of oxytocin have similar priming effects on dogs’ social susceptibility.

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“…We found an additional significant correlation between cat behaviors and women's OT, including cat displayed affectionate behavior and cat displayed agnostic or aggressive behavior. Behavioral synchrony in human-dog literature is often associated with an increased affiliation or social responsiveness in dogs with their adult owners (Wanser, MacDonald & Udell, 2021). Therefore, our affection-seeking and anti-social measures may contribute to behavioral synchrony or asynchrony similar to human-infant and human-dog synchrony, which account for neurobiological systems in social bonding and attachment that impact women and their relationship with their pet cats.…”

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confidence: 99%

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2021

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Dog–human behavioral synchronization: family dogs synchronize their behavior with child family members

Cited by 28 publications

References 23 publications

Human-Dog Relationship during the First COVID-19 Lockdown in Italy

Human-Dog Relationship during the First COVID-19 Lockdown in Italy

Social Stimulation by the Owner Increases Dogs’ (Canis familiaris) Social Susceptibility in a Food Choice Task—The Possible Effect of Endogenous Oxytocin Release

Peer Review #1 of "Exploring women’s oxytocin responses to interactions with their pet cats (v0.2)"

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