Timmy’s in the well: Empathy and prosocial helping in dogs
Dogs are thought to evaluate humans’ emotional states, and attend more to crying people than to humming people. However, it is unclear whether dogs would go beyond focusing attention on humans in need by providing more substantive help to them. This study used a trapped-other paradigm, modified from...
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Language: | English |
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Springer New York LLC
2018
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