Social interaction can function as a reinforcer for dogs: Effects of stimulus duration and session parameters.
Prior research has produced mixed results on whether human social interaction can function as a reinforcer for dog behavior. However, that research used either short durations of social interaction or rapid, repeated trials such that satiation could have been a factor. We investigated whether two du...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior Vol. 120; no. 1; pp. 91 - 103 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jul2023
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