Dogs' Social Referencing towards Owners and Strangers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Merola, Isabella ^a   Prato Previde, Emanuela ^a   Marshall Pescini, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; EYE DOMINANCE; EYE MOVEMENT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GAZE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PREDICTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BONDING, HUMAN-PET; COMMUNICATION; CUES; DOGS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PETS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84867425266     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047653     Document Type: Article

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