Exploratory Study of Stress-Buffering Response Patterns from Interaction with a Therapy Dog.
This exploratory study builds on existing research on the physiological stress response to human-animal interactions in a non-clinical sample of adult dog-owners interacting with their own or an unfamiliar therapy dog under similar conditions. Participants were therapy-dog owners (TDO group; n = 5)...
| Publicado en: | Anthrozoös Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 79 - 92 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2010
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