Early life adversity in dogs produces altered physiological and behavioral responses during a social stress‐buffering paradigm.
Although owners can act as stress buffers for their dogs, whether dogs with poor early life histories with humans will respond similarly is unknown. We tested 45 dogs, 23 of which were rescued from adverse conditions, in a social paradigm in which a threatening stranger confronted them with either t...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior Vol. 120; no. 1; pp. 6 - 21 |
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