{"id":3885,"date":"2015-02-12T12:17:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T17:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2015-02-16T19:20:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T00:20:42","slug":"happy-your-dog-knows-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/happy-your-dog-knows-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy? Your dog knows it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3887\" style=\"width: 535px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3887\" class=\"wp-image-3887\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dog.jpg\" alt=\"This is the experimental set-up used to test whether dogs can discriminate emotional expressions of human faces. (Photo Credit: Anjuli Barber, Messerli Research Institute)\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dog.jpg 600w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dog-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is the experimental set-up used to test whether dogs can discriminate emotional expressions of human faces. (Photo Credit: Anjuli Barber, Messerli Research Institute)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dogs can tell the difference between happy and angry human faces, a new study shows.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers taught 11 dogs to discriminate between happy and angry human faces, and then tested them showing only half of the faces, mixing new faces and masking the teeth.<\/p>\n<p>The authors conclude that dogs can discriminate between human\u2019s emotional expressions, and rule out that discrimination was based on simple cues, such as the visibility of teeth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/abstract\/S0960-9822%2814%2901693-5\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Current Biology\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>February 12<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Corsin A. Muller, University of Veterinary Medicine\u00a0Vienna, Medical University of Vienna and University of Vienna, Austria<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dogs can tell the difference between happy and angry human faces, a new study shows. Researchers taught 11 dogs to discriminate between happy and angry human faces, and then tested them showing only half of the faces, mixing new faces and masking the teeth. The authors conclude that dogs can discriminate between human\u2019s emotional expressions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[39,2373],"class_list":["post-3885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-dogs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dog.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-10F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3891,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions\/3891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}