What do dogs see in human behavior?

• FUJITA KAZUO

  Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• イヌはヒトの行動に何を見ているのか?
• 講演論文 イヌはヒトの行動に何を見ているのか?
• コウエン ロンブン イヌ ワ ヒト ノ コウドウ ニ ナニ オ ミテ イル ノ カ?

Abstract

Dogs are known to be extremely sensitive to human behavior. They use human gestures such as pointing as a cue better than great apes. A question here is whether this wonderful human companion simply reads apparent "behavior" of us, or, like humans, more deeply some sort of indirect information the behavior implies. In three separate tests, including pointing games with a non-trustworthy person, inference of the door function from human behavior toward it, and third-party affective evaluation of human interactions, we show that dogs often utilize more than superficial actions they observe. Dogs are at least somewhat "cognitivists" rather than pure "behaviorists" that learn everything by simple association with observable stimuli.

Journal

• Japanese Journal of Animal Psychology

  Japanese Journal of Animal Psychology 66 (1), 11-21, 2016

  THE JAPANESE SOCIETY FOR ANIMAL PSYCHOLOGY

Keywords

• dogs
• pointing game
• reliability
• inference
• social eavesdropping

Details

• CRID: 1390282680184514304
• NII Article ID: 130005158959
• NII Book ID: AN10363631
• DOI: 10.2502/janip.66.1.5
• ISSN: 18809022
• ISSN: 09168419
• NDL BIB ID: 027501833
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I027501833
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/janip/66/1/66_66.1.5/_pdf
• Text Lang: en
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