[USA] Arizona State University’s latest research (March 11, 2025) suggests it! Don’t pretend to understand dog emotions! It turns out we were misunderstanding dogs’ feelings!
4月 26, 2026菅原隆志26 min read
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[Overview]
In a joint study by Holly Molinaro, a doctoral student in psychology and animal welfare, and Clive Wynne, professor of psychology, at Arizona State University (ASU), the experiment titled “Barking up the wrong tree: Human Perception of Dog Emotions Is Influenced by Extraneous Factors” revealed in March 2025 that people misjudge dogs’ emotions based not on the animals’ behavior itself, but on the surrounding context.This study, published by ASU News, has attracted significant attention as a new scientific finding.
[Shocking results from research that stunned the world!]
This experiment exposed a blind spot in communication with dogs. The research team confirmed that even when a dog is doing the same behavior, the surrounding context—such as a leash, the presentation of treats, or the appearance of a vacuum cleaner—greatly affects people’s evaluations. In the experiment,in Experiment 1, 383 people、in Experiment 2, 485 peopleparticipated, and the results showed that although the dog’s actual behavior did not change, emotional evaluations such as “happy” or “anxious” differed greatly! These numbers are not a coincidence, but findings supported by a large amount of data and therefore highly reliable.
[What was the problem in the first place?]
We tend to look at our dog’s facial expressions and gestures and judge, “This dog must be happy,” or “Something bad must have happened,”but this study shows that those judgments are actually heavily influenced by the surrounding situation—whether treats are being given, or whether a vacuum cleaner is present. In other words,**don’t pretend to understand dog emotions!** That warning is right here…….
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