Emotional contagion: dogs and humans show a similar physiological response to human infant crying.

Abstract:

:Humans respond to an infant crying with an increase in cortisol level and heightened alertness, a response interpreted as emotional contagion, a primitive form of empathy. Previous results are mixed when examining whether dogs might respond similarly to human distress. We examined whether domestic dogs, which have a long history of affiliation with humans, show signs of emotional contagion, testing canine (n=75) and human (n=74) responses to one of three auditory stimuli: a human infant crying, a human infant babbling, and computer-generated "white noise", with the latter two stimuli acting as controls. Cortisol levels in both humans and dogs increased significantly from baseline only after listening to crying. In addition, dogs showed a unique behavioral response to crying, combining submissiveness with alertness. These findings suggest that dogs experience emotional contagion in response to human infant crying and provide the first clear evidence of a primitive form of cross-species empathy.

journal_name

Behav Processes

journal_title

Behavioural processes

authors

Yong MH,Ruffman T

doi

10.1016/j.beproc.2014.10.006

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2014-10-01 00:00:00

pages

155-65

eissn

0376-6357

issn

1872-8308

pii

S0376-6357(14)00247-2

journal_volume

108

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