Who's Top Dog? The Sociability towards Humans of Six Different Canid Types
abstract: We compared sociability towards humans of domesticated and tame members of several Canidae: Belyaev's fox (Vulpes vulpes), red fox (Vulpes vulpes), gray wolf (Canis lupus), dingo (Canis l. dingo), New Guinea singing dog (Canis l. dingo), and dog (Canis l. familiaris). We defined socia...
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ftarizonastateun:item:48213 2023-05-15T15:50:20+02:00 Who's Top Dog? The Sociability towards Humans of Six Different Canid Types Beckstrom-Sternberg, David Tristan (Author) Wynne, Clive (Thesis Director) McBeath, Michael (Committee Member) School of International Letters and Cultures Department of Psychology Barrett, The Honors College 2018-05 27 pages http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.48213 eng eng Academic Year 2017-2018 http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.48213 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ All Rights Reserved Psychology Dogs Foxes Text 2018 ftarizonastateun 2019-04-06T22:51:51Z abstract: We compared sociability towards humans of domesticated and tame members of several Canidae: Belyaev's fox (Vulpes vulpes), red fox (Vulpes vulpes), gray wolf (Canis lupus), dingo (Canis l. dingo), New Guinea singing dog (Canis l. dingo), and dog (Canis l. familiaris). We defined sociability as motivation or willingness to engage with humans. Our operationalized definition of sociability is the latency to approach (LTA) the human experimenter and the amount of time the canid spent within one meter of the human experimenter (PTC). We added an unfamiliar and familiar experimenter condition to deduce whether or not canids discriminated on who they were more social with: an owner or a stranger. To each experimenter condition we added a passive and active phase to discern whether or not canids were more social when called or not. Across all conditions and phases dogs were significantly more social than all other canid types. We concluded genetic differences due to domestication and environmental differences due to socialization accounted for sociability differences seen in dogs compared to the other canid types. Text Canis lupus gray wolf Arizona State University: ASU Digital Repository |
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abstract: We compared sociability towards humans of domesticated and tame members of several Canidae: Belyaev's fox (Vulpes vulpes), red fox (Vulpes vulpes), gray wolf (Canis lupus), dingo (Canis l. dingo), New Guinea singing dog (Canis l. dingo), and dog (Canis l. familiaris). We defined sociability as motivation or willingness to engage with humans. Our operationalized definition of sociability is the latency to approach (LTA) the human experimenter and the amount of time the canid spent within one meter of the human experimenter (PTC). We added an unfamiliar and familiar experimenter condition to deduce whether or not canids discriminated on who they were more social with: an owner or a stranger. To each experimenter condition we added a passive and active phase to discern whether or not canids were more social when called or not. Across all conditions and phases dogs were significantly more social than all other canid types. We concluded genetic differences due to domestication and environmental differences due to socialization accounted for sociability differences seen in dogs compared to the other canid types. |
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Beckstrom-Sternberg, David Tristan (Author) Wynne, Clive (Thesis Director) McBeath, Michael (Committee Member) School of International Letters and Cultures Department of Psychology Barrett, The Honors College |
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