For thousands of years, humans have selectively bred dogs to fulfill specific roles, ranging from guarding and hunting to ...

Early dogs that could sense human moods would have been better at avoiding danger, seeking affection, or helping during hunts. This mutual understanding offered evolutionary advantages, ...

Dogs can smell human stress — and it alters their own behavior, reveals new research. Our four-legged friends experience “emotional contagion” from the smell of human stress — leading ...

Inspired Life Dogs can smell human stress, and it bums them out, study shows. A new study found that even a stranger’s stress odor can affect a dog’s emotional state.

"Dogs seem to be specially keen on catching the emotional content of differently valenced human vocalizations," researcher Paula Pérez Fraga said.

While the research was mostly concerned with comparing human-dog and human-human relationships, the ELTE researchers also considered how our ties with dogs and humans connect to each other. Assessing ...

Dogs experience emotional contagion from the smell of human stress, leading them to make more 'pessimistic' choices, new research finds. The University of Bristol-led study, published in ...