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Side matters : potential mechanisms underlying dogs' performance in a social eavesdropping paradigm
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Nitzschner, Marie, Kaminski, Juliane, Melis, Alicia P. and Tomasello, Michael (2014) Side matters : potential mechanisms underlying dogs' performance in a social eavesdropping paradigm. Animal Behaviour, 90 . pp. 263-271. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.01.035 ISSN 0003-3472.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.01.035
Abstract
Social eavesdropping is the gathering of information by observing interactions between other individuals. Previous studies have claimed that dogs, Canis familiaris, are able to use information obtained via social eavesdropping, that is, preferring a generous over a selfish human donor. However, in these studies the side was constant between the demonstrations and the dogs' choices, not controlling for potential location biases. In the crucial control condition of our experiments, the donors swapped places in half of the trials before the dogs chose. We found that first choice behaviour as well as the time dogs interacted with the generous donor were influenced by location (side). In a second experiment the subject's owner interacted with the two donors. Again, the result of the side control revealed that the critical factor was location (side) not person. The results of these experiments provide no evidence for social eavesdropping in dogs and show the importance of critical control conditions.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Animal Behaviour | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0003-3472 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | April 2014 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 90 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 263-271 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.01.035 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
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