Dogs are trained for a variety of working roles including assistance, protection, and detection
work. Many canine working roles, in their modern iterations, were developed at the turn of …

There is an ongoing need to improve animal models for investigating human behavior and
its biological underpinnings. The domestic dog (Canis familiaris) is a promising model in …

'How Emotions Are Made did what all great books do. It took a subject I thought I understood
and turned my understanding upside down'–Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tip** Point …

Disgust is an adaptive system hypothesized to have evolved to reduce the risk of becoming
sick. It is associated with behavioural, cognitive and physiological responses tuned to allow …

Simple Summary Recently, an increasing number of studies have investigated the
expression and perception of emotions by non-human animals. In particular, it is of interest …

Facial expressions are a core component of the emotional response of social mammals. In
contrast to Darwin's original proposition, expressive facial cues of emotion appear to have …

It is not possible to demonstrate that dogs (Canis familiaris) feel emotions, but the same is
true for all other species, including our own. The issue must therefore be approached …

Dogs (Canis familiaris) and cats (Felis silvestris catus) have been domesticated through
different processes. Dogs were the first domesticated animals, cooperating with humans by …

Over the recent years, the study of emotional functioning has become one of the central
issues in dog cognition. Previous studies showed that dogs can recognize different emotions …

Robotic agents will be life-long companions of humans in the foreseeable future. To achieve
such successful relationships, people will likely attribute emotions and personality, assign …