Are dogs (Canis familiaris) misled more by their owners than by strangers in a food choice task?

Animal Cognition
S Marshall-PesciniPaola Valsecchi

Abstract

Dogs are highly skilled in understanding a large variety of human social cues and use them appropriately to solve a number of different cognitive tasks. They rely on human signals even when these are contradictory or misleading and ultimately prevent them from correctly solving a task. In the following two experiments, we investigated whether the owner and a stranger differently influenced dogs' choices in food discrimination tasks. In Experiment 1, 48 dogs were tested in 3 different conditions: (1) choice between a large and a small amount of dog pellets with no demonstration; (2) choice between a large and a small amount of dog pellets after having witnessed the owner/stranger favouring the small quantity; (3) choice between two single food pellets after observing the owner/stranger choosing one of them. In Experiment 2, 48 dogs could choose between two foods of different palatability: in Condition 1, dogs chose between a slice of sausage and a dry pellet with no demonstration. In Condition 2, the same choice was available but with a person (owner/stranger) showing a preference for the dry pellet. In Condition 3, dogs chose between a single dry pellet and 8 slices of sausage, with the person (owner/stranger) showing a prefere...Continue Reading

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Oct 17, 2012·PloS One·Isabella MerolaSarah Marshall-Pescini
Feb 20, 2014·Behavioural Processes·Andrea KerepesiÁdám Miklósi
Oct 29, 2014·Animal Cognition·Akiko TakaokaKazuo Fujita
Feb 15, 2019·Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Cognitive Science·József TopálBorbála Turcsán
Apr 2, 2013·Animal Cognition·S Marshall-PesciniE Prato-Previde
Jun 5, 2019·Animal Cognition·Shanis BarnardEmanuela Prato-Previde
Sep 17, 2017·Scientific Reports·Michelle LampeZsófia Virányi
Apr 30, 2020·Scientific Reports·Miho NagasawaTakefumi Kikusui
Jul 7, 2020·Animal Cognition·Melanie HenschelJuliane Bräuer
Feb 6, 2020·Frontiers in Psychology·Debottam BhattacharjeeAnindita Bhadra
Jul 22, 2021·Proceedings. Biological Sciences·Lucrezia LonardoLudwig Huber

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