Dog Cooperation, Part 3

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Dog Emotion and Cognition

2150 calificaciones

Duke University

Dog Emotion and Cognition

2150 calificaciones

Dog Emotion and Cognition will introduce you to the exciting new study of dog psychology, what the latest discoveries tell us about how dogs think and feel about us, and how we can use this new knowledge to further strengthen our relationship with our best friends.

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Problems That Dogs Can and Cannot Solve

In this module, you will learn about the genius of dogs. Brilliant examples of the canine mind will be explored. Dogs seem to be capable of inferential reasoning using the "principle of exclusion" as well as learning new words by imitating humans. Next, Dr. Hare discusses dog's abilities to understand physical problem solving compared to other species (hint, this isn't most dog's strong suit). Last, he will discuss how dogs are not cooperative breeders, do have a relaxed social system, and are excellent hunting companions for humans.

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Conoce a los instructores

Brian Hare
Associate Professor
Evolutionary Anthropology

So, we talked about contagious yawning in regards to bonobos.

In that,

bonobos will actually contagiously yawn when they see another bonobo yawning.

And what was interesting is they yawned with, there was a stranger, and the reason

we got excited about that, of course, is because in lots of different animals,

including humans, we know that animals contagiously yawn for individuals that

they have stronger bonds with, stronger relationships, closer ties with.

And people think this is sort of a basic form of empathy and

it ends up that there's now good evidence that dogs may contagiously yawn and they

may even contagiously yawn for individuals that they are more or less bonded with.

So, this is really a fun game to play with your dog, and

it's part of the Dognition Toolkit that you can play for

free, if you decide to do this as a laboratory activity.

It's really fun to see if your dog yawns and

then compare your dog to other dogs as well.

And the reason I bring this up is that it seems that dogs,

like primates, have strengths of different strengths of relationships in

the social groups that they're in, and this might be a really fun way to look at

the strength of those relationships as people continue to try to understand

how it is that dogs cooperate the way that they do.

The other thing that's been discovered is a fascinating relationship between

the amount of time that a dog spends making eye contact with a person

the amount of oxytocin,

which is a neural peptide that is created in both the dog and human.

It seems that there is an oxytocin loop between dogs and humans,

where, as a dog makes eye contact with you, oxytocin is being produced in you and

oxytocin is being produced in the dog, and oxytocin is known as the hug hormone.

It's a hormone that drives social behavior in humans and in other non-human animals.

It's the hormone,

for instance, that's related to a mother bonding with infants after birth.

And has been shown to be related to animals who have monogamous bonds,

tend to have a different level of oxytocin and receptivity to oxytocin,

than animals that do not have that same kind of bond.

So, oxytocin between humans and dogs seems to increase

just when we make eye contact and stare at each other.

That's why this again is a really interesting thing to check on

in your dog and another one of the things that you can do as a lab exercise,

if you choose, through Dognition.

And of course, the reason that's

really fun is because not all dogs make the same amount of eye contact.

And so, you can see where your dog falls and

how that relates to the bond that you feel you have with your dog.

The reason that that It seems to be important is there is research showing

that people who tend to report that they have more satisfaction in their

relationship with their dogs,

when they are then measured interacting with their dog, it's people who report

more satisfaction with their dog have dogs that make more eye contact with them.

And when it was measured through their urine,

those people were actually expressing more oxytocin in their urine,

suggesting that the dog that made more eye contact was creating more oxytocin,

making a stronger bond, thus making the people report when you ask them,

that they had greater satisfaction in that relationship.

So dogs are really built for cooperation and bonding.

And this is one of the fun and exciting things of this new research,

is we're understanding where this new bond comes from.

What drives it.

And now we can measure it not just in a group of dogs, but

you can potentially measure it in your dog.

So, to summarize, while wolves and dogs are similar in many ways in their social

system, they're really different because dogs are not cooperative breeders.

Mothers and offspring can recognize each other years later, but

siblings cannot in the case of dogs.

Dogs can assess numerical advantage when two packs meet.

Humans are not able to determine when a dog is guilty.

And there is evidence that dogs contagiously yawn

when they observe a person yawning.

This has been linked to the strength of their bond with that person.

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