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Human Perception of Dog Emotions Is Influenced by Extraneous Factors

Human Perception of Dog Emotions Is Influenced by Extraneous Factors

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·March 18, 2025
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sethammons

This is silly. It shows that from a still image, people misattribute emotion in animals and that additional context is needed to interpret the still image.

They acknowledge it by referencing that humans mess this up with humans too. A freeze frame of laughing or crying may look the same.

You don't experience a sad or happy person as a still image. People don't have trouble confusing sadness and happiness in people. Because it takes context.

Why would it be any different and not require context for reading emotions in a dog?

dmurray

Human perception of absolutely everything is influenced by the surrounding conditions.

Every so often a study goes viral that demonstrates that humans can be fooled about such simple things as whether wine is red or white, whether a dog is happy or sad, whether an accused criminal is innocent or guilty, just by exposing the human making the judgment to some simple extra stimuli.

It will be more interesting when I see a study like this that doesn't find any difference.

brudgers

Link to top of page, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08927936.2025.2...

sethammons

Took me to the bottom