Dogs catch human yawns

Biology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 446-448

  Joly Mascheroni, Ramiro M ^a   Senju, Atsushi ^a   Shepherd, Alex J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contagious yawning; Dog; Empathy; Social cognition; Yawning

Indexed keywords

CANID; COGNITION; HOMINID; SENSORY SYSTEM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; EMPATHY; FEMALE; MALE; MOUTH; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YAWNING;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; PRIMATES;

EID: 51549092593     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0333     Document Type: Article

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