Human Analogue Safe Haven Effect of the Owner: Behavioural and Heart Rate Response to Stressful Social Stimuli in Dogs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Gácsi, Márta ^a   Maros, Katalin ^b   Sernkvist, Sofie ^c   Faragó, Tamás ^c   Miklósi, Ádám ^c  

^a MTA ELTE COMPARATIVE ETHOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP   (Hungary)

^b SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DOG; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; PET ANIMAL; SAFETY; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALS; BONDING, HUMAN-PET; CUES; DOGS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84874628570     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058475     Document Type: Article

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