A new study reports genetic variations in sensitivity to oxytocin allows dogs to be more sociable and seek out contact with their owners.
Evidence suggests new dog owners experience a reduction in negative mood and feelings of loneliness.
Findings could help animal shelters to improve the pet adoption process and find the perfect pet partner for people.
The ability of dogs to "sniff out" certain diseases including COVID-19 infection and cancer has been well documented over recent years. Now, a new study reveals dogs can detect a person's stress level by odor alone.
A new study reports dogs use different parts of their brains to process negative and positive emotional cues in human facial expressions.
A new study reveals oxytocin, a hormone implicated in bonding, may play an important role in social interactions between man and dog.
Dogs have multi-modal mental imagery of items and objects that are familiar to them. When a dog thinks about an object, they imagine the object's different sensory features.
Toddlers are twice as likely to help a dog reach a toy, even when the animal showed no interest in the object. The findings suggest toddlers' prosocial and goal-reading abilities extend beyond other humans and to animals.
Just as with humans, a dog's personality is likely to change over time, a new study reports.
fMRI neuroimaging reveals the parietotemporal cortex of dogs responds to numeric concepts. The study provides evidence that numerosity is a shared evolutionary neural mechanism.
The living environment has a significant impact on the skin microbiota, but not gut bacteria, in both humans and dogs.
A new study reveals domestication has altered the cognitive abilities of dogs, especially when it comes to determining cause and effect.
