Familiarity Bias and Physiological Responses in Contagious Yawning by Dogs Support Link to Empathy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Romero, Teresa ^a,b   Konno, Akitsugu ^a,b   Hasegawa, Toshikazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTAGIOUS YAWNING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EMOTIONALITY; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; YAWNING;

ANIMALS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BONDING, HUMAN-PET; DOGS; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YAWNING;

EID: 84881339042     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071365     Document Type: Article

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