Your Dog Knows How You Feel—Here’s How
A recent study reveals dogs are more intuitive than we thought.
Does it ever seem like your dog is in tune with your emotions? You may be on to something.
In new experiments, dogs showed signs of understanding whether a human or a dog was happy or mad based on facial expressions and vocalizations.
The research, published in the journal Biology Letters, set out to explore the emotional connection between man and his best friend.
"We still didn't know if the dogs ... can somehow understand that, say, a happy facial expression is positive and a negative facial expression is negative," says study leader Natalia de Souza Albuquerque, a Ph.D. student in experimental psychology at the University of São Paulo in Brazil.
For the research, Albuquerque and her team recruited 17 pet
