Two recent studies find that people experience less pain when a person is in the room with them, but even better outcomes ...

In a nutshell Humans tend to judge a dog’s emotions based on the surrounding context rather than the dog’s actual behavior, often leading to misinterpretations of their emotional state. People with ...

Experiments conducted by ASU researchers explored how people may not always perceive their dogs' emotions correctly.

added Wynne, an ASU psychology professor who studies ... In the second experiment they edited the videos so the dog who had been filmed in a happy context looked like he had been recorded in ...

A dog's physical cues often take a back seat to environmental ones, skewing humans' perceptions, a small study suggests.

"Our dogs are trying to communicate with us, but we humans seem determined to look at everything except the poor pooch himself," added Wynne, an ASU psychology professor who studies dog behavior ...

headed by Heidi Mauersberger of the department of psychology at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, conducted an unusual experiment to see if interaction with dogs could reduce the perception ...

added Wynne, an ASU psychology professor who studies ... In the second experiment they edited the videos so the dog who had been filmed in a happy context looked like he had been recorded in ...