Understanding the Spectrum of Jealousy in Dogs
The article my group picked was “Jealousy in Dogs,” the experiment was conducted by Christine R. Harris and Caroline Prouvost out of the University of California, San Diego. The article was published in July of 2014 by the Public Library of Science (PLOS). The paper covers animal behavior, specifically dog emotions. The topic is interesting because I was always told you anthropomorphize your pets by giving them emotions. The paper hypothesizes that there is a primary version of jealousy that does not require complex cognitive functions, and it seen in dogs.
The paper did a good job of addressing both the studies that complement it and the sides that did not. The authors supported their reasoning …show more content…
Two people watched the videotaped scenarios and looked for the seven different behaviors that were being tested for in the experiment. The tail up behavior was excluded because it was too hard to separate the positive behavior from the negative behavior. The researchers assumed someone could tell the difference between positive behavior and negative behavior but unfortunately dogs don’t wag their tails in only in the vertical or horizontal direction. Another limitation is dogs may be like people where everyone has distinct ranges of emotions, and not everyone reacts the same to different …show more content…
They would be cleaned because the dogs would be able to smell the other dogs on the equipment and it would be an extra variable. I would also not include the section on whether the dogs perceived the stuffed dog as real, because the experiment was on jealousy not on a dog being jealous in one context. I would also include if the dogs came from single-dog-families, and if they came from one or more person families, because in both situations, the dogs may act differently. I would also include a larger sample size not just one class. Also, I think the partial credit in the class gives the students incentive to participate in the experiment that takes away from the question. I would have opened the experiment to other people in the school to get a broader spectrum of individuals.
This study is important because it supports dogs may have more complex cognitive functions than we give them credit for. Future research should be done on where the emotion, jealousy comes from and if the animals that have the emotions because of interacting with humans.
This study relates to my academic interests because I am interested in animal behavior. If dogs could have a form of secondary emotion, then that means other animals that have been classed as only having primary emotions may have more. It also adds more to look at when thinking of ways
The article my group picked was “Jealousy in Dogs,” the experiment was conducted by Christine R. Harris and Caroline Prouvost out of the University of California, San Diego. The article was published in July of 2014 by the Public Library of Science (PLOS). The paper covers animal behavior, specifically dog emotions. The topic is interesting because I was always told you anthropomorphize your pets by giving them emotions. The paper hypothesizes that there is a primary version of jealousy that does not require complex cognitive functions, and it seen in dogs.
The paper did a good job of addressing both the studies that complement it and the sides that did not. The authors supported their reasoning …show more content…
Two people watched the videotaped scenarios and looked for the seven different behaviors that were being tested for in the experiment. The tail up behavior was excluded because it was too hard to separate the positive behavior from the negative behavior. The researchers assumed someone could tell the difference between positive behavior and negative behavior but unfortunately dogs don’t wag their tails in only in the vertical or horizontal direction. Another limitation is dogs may be like people where everyone has distinct ranges of emotions, and not everyone reacts the same to different …show more content…
They would be cleaned because the dogs would be able to smell the other dogs on the equipment and it would be an extra variable. I would also not include the section on whether the dogs perceived the stuffed dog as real, because the experiment was on jealousy not on a dog being jealous in one context. I would also include if the dogs came from single-dog-families, and if they came from one or more person families, because in both situations, the dogs may act differently. I would also include a larger sample size not just one class. Also, I think the partial credit in the class gives the students incentive to participate in the experiment that takes away from the question. I would have opened the experiment to other people in the school to get a broader spectrum of individuals.
This study is important because it supports dogs may have more complex cognitive functions than we give them credit for. Future research should be done on where the emotion, jealousy comes from and if the animals that have the emotions because of interacting with humans.
This study relates to my academic interests because I am interested in animal behavior. If dogs could have a form of secondary emotion, then that means other animals that have been classed as only having primary emotions may have more. It also adds more to look at when thinking of ways