Investigating jealous behaviour in dogs

Abdai, Judit; Terencio, Cristina Baño; Fraga, Paula Pérez; Miklósi, Ádám

doi:10.1038/s41598-018-27251-1

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“…Thus, to the extent animals experience emotion beyond core affect, it is likely constrained by such predictive concepts. For instance, while there is some evidence that dogs may have a “concept” of jealousy (and behavioral reactions to it) similar to that in humans (Abdai, Terencio, Fraga, & Miklósi, 2018; Harris & Prouvost, 2014; Cook, Prichard, Spivak, & Berns, 2018, cf Prato‐Previde et al, 2018,b), dogs do not appear to have a “concept” for guilt or the situations that would elicit guilt in humans (Horowitz, 2009). And, conversely, animals may experience discrete emotions for which humans lack concepts, such as the emotion of “sensing the vibrations of a dying family member's voice hundreds of miles away (as might be the case for cetaceans and elephants), or an emotion that results from the physiological consequences of a 250m deep dive that has turned up a favorite food (as may be the case for California sea lions)” (Bliss‐Moreau, 2017, p. 187).…”

Section: Boring Thoughts Other Mindsmentioning

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Lost by definition: Why boredom matters for psychology and society

Westgate

Steidle

2020

Social & Personality Psych

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Long overlooked, boredom has drawn increasing attention across multiple subfields of psychology (including clinical, developmental, educational, cognitive, and industrial/organizational psychology), as well as economics, philosophy, neuroscience, and animal cognition. In this article, we review and integrate this work by providing a social psychological perspective on boredom as an emotion and its role in signaling the need for change to restore successful attention in meaningful activity. In doing so, we discuss the implications of that approach for understanding boredom cross‐culturally and cross‐species, and identify opportunities for targeted interventions to reduce boredom and improve well‐being.

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Lost by definition: Why boredom matters for psychology and society

Westgate

Steidle

2020

Social & Personality Psych

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“…(1) To acclimate the dog to the laboratory, the owner and the dog entered the room together and searched the room for 2 minutes. In many canine laboratory experiments, the acclimation time to the laboratory ranges from 30 seconds to a few minutes, so in our study, we chose 2 minutes [3,10]. The experimenter waited outside the door of the laboratory and, after 2 minutes, the owner and the test dog were escorted into the waiting room.…”

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“…Evaluating the dog-subjects' dominant rank. Using the questionnaire [3,28] used by Abdai et al in their behavioral experiment of dogs in the triad relationship among owner, dog, and third party (artifacts such as a remote-controlled car or other dogs), we also investigated whether the test dogs were likely to be higher or lower in the domestic pecking order. The questionnaire items are as follow:…”

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“…Because jealousy could affect a dog's behavior in the presence of an agent interacting with the dog's owner, it was important that the subject group did not have strong bias of jealousy behavior. Thus, we utilized the questionnaire applied to 631 dogs by Abdai et al [3] to check our dog-subjects jealousy level. The questionnaire items are as follow:…”

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Gap between Owner's Perceptions and Dog's Behaviors Toward the Same Physical Agents

Kasuga

Ikeda

2020

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction

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Dogs are often considered as humans' oldest friends. The relationship between people and dogs (wherein they are regarded as family members in the home) is well-studied. Since social agents have recently become a part of family life, a new field of research has been introduced that is centered on the human-agent and dog-agent relationships. Hence, in this study, to investigate how social agents are perceived by dog owners and dogs, we employed existing communication agents such as smart speakers and conducted two experiments; the first one investigated dog owners' impression toward the agents in agent-owner interaction and the second one investigated dog's behavior in front of the agents during owner's speaking to the agents and the agents' speaking to the dogs. Furthermore, we statistically analyzed the results of thirty-three dog-owners and twenty-one dogs. The results obtained from the GODSPEED questionnaire analysis indicate that regarding aspects such as anthropomorphism, animacy, likability, and perceived intelligence, the dog-like smart speaker is significantly worse than the educational humanoid robots NAO and Pepper. Regarding aspects such as animacy, likability, and perceived intelligence, the dog-like smart speaker has a significantly lower rating than Google Home, and it has a lower rating than Pepper with respect to perceived safety. However, in the case of canine behavioral analysis, the percentage of individuals who engaged in social behaviors (such as sniffing the rear) in response to the dog-like smart speaker is found to be significantly higher than that for the other agents. Hence, although this study is an exploratory experiment in terms of subject limitations and determination of behavioral indicators, it is the first step towards bridging the gap between owners' and dogs' perceptions of an agent's sociality while employing the same physical agents. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in HCI; Empirical studies in interaction design; HCI design and evaluation methods.

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“…Dogs are good candidates for jealousy, thanks to their advanced socio-cognitive abilities and long-lasting attachment relationships to humans (Hare & Woods, 2013). Yet results are mixed: whereas some studies have demonstrated dogs' jealous reactions to their owners interacting with a "rival" dog (Abdai, Baño Terencio, Pérez Fraga, & Miklósi, 2018;Cook, Prichard, Spivak, & Berns, 2018;Harris & Prouvost, 2014), other researchers have failed to find evidence for jealousy (Prato-Previde, Nicotra, Fusar Poli, Pelosi, & Valsecchi, 2018a;Prato-Previde, Nicotra, Pelosi, & Valsecchi, 2018b). Such discrepancies may stem from the artificial nature of the experimental paradigms employed: some studies show that dogs exhibit jealous behavioral and neurological responses to fake dogs (Cook et al, 2018;Harris & Prouvost, 2014), but findings that fake dogs are not perceived as real social threats cast doubt on this interpretation (Prato-Previde, Nicotra, Pelosi, et al, 2018, 2018a, 2018b.…”

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Jealous Behavior in Chimpanzees Elicited by Social Intruders

Webb

Kolff

et al. 2020

Affec Sci

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Despite increasing interest in animal emotions, jealousy has rarely been directly addressed in comparative research, except for studies of human-pet interactions. Jealous behavior emerges when a valuable social bond is threatened by a third-party, prompting aggression or intervention attempts to direct the partner's attention away from the rival. Emotional reactions that protect relationships are expected in species in which social relationships are important for fitness, including primates. Previous primate studies have alluded to this ultimate function, but never explicitly tested predictions corresponding to a proximate jealousy mechanism. We demonstrate jealous behavior in a long-established colony of chimpanzees (N = 17) during a socially disruptive period due to group introductions, which provided an ideal experimental opportunity to test predictions of a jealousy hypothesis. Specifically, we found that negative reactions (agonism and intervention attempts) towards social closeness between two groupmates were generally more common when the aggressor/intervener had a valuable relationship to one (as compared with both or neither) of the dyad's members, indicating that the other partner represented a potential social rival. In line with this suggestion, we found that negative reactions most often targeted dyads containing newly introduced individuals, especially when the social conditions for jealousy were met, and in particular during the socially unstable introduction period. Results underscore the potential adaptive role of jealousy in protecting fitness-enhancing relationships from social interlopers, by extension indicating that this emotion likely evolved in diverse animal societies. Keywords Jealous behavior. Animal emotions. Social relationships. Chimpanzees. Introductions The past several decades have witnessed an upsurge in the scientific study of nonhuman animal (hereafter, animal) emo

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Investigating jealous behaviour in dogs

Cited by 23 publications

References 25 publications

Lost by definition: Why boredom matters for psychology and society

Lost by definition: Why boredom matters for psychology and society

Gap between Owner's Perceptions and Dog's Behaviors Toward the Same Physical Agents

Jealous Behavior in Chimpanzees Elicited by Social Intruders

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