Evaluating the accuracy of facial expressions as emotion indicators across contexts in dogs.

ABSTRACT: Facial expressions potentially serve as indicators of animal emotions if they are consistently present across situations that (likely) elicit the same emotional state. In a previous study, we used the Dog Facial Action Coding System (DogFACS) to identify facial expressions in dogs associated with conditions presumably eliciting positive anticipation (expectation of a food reward) and frustration (prevention of access to the food). Our first aim here was to identify facial expressions of positive anticipation and frustration in dogs that are context-independent (and thus have potential as emotion indicators) and to distinguish them from expressions that are reward-specific (and thus might relate to a motivational state associated with the expected reward). Therefore, we tested a new sample

SUBMITTER: Bremhorst A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8904359 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature