Humans Process Dog and Human Facial Affect in Similar Ways

Humans share aspects of their facial affect with other species such as dogs. Here we asked whether untrained human observers with and without dog experience are sensitive to these aspects and recognize dog affect with better-than-chance accuracy. Additionally, we explored similarities in the way obs...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Schirmer, Annett, Seow, Cui Shan, Penney, Trevor B.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3762775/