Dogs can recognize a bad person and there’s a science to prove it
From the stranger that your normally well-behaved dog barks at in the street to the friend that your dog refuses to go near, sometimes it seems dogs just know when someone is a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ person.
And now it turns out our suspicions were right all along.
Your dog might actually be smarter than you’re giving it credit for. It turns out, that dogs are pretty good at picking up on human behavior. When a dog sense that a person may be someone to avoid, science says that their instincts are spot on.
We all know that dogs have an incredible sense of smell. That’s why they’re sometimes used to sniff out drugs or bombs or to protect our first responders. But a dog can actually recognize factors that make up a person’s personality, according to a study published in the journal Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. Specifically, they can sense when a person is being “mean” to another person.
Dogs are highly skilled at understanding human pointing gestures, but they also make inferences about the reliability of a human who presents cues and consequently modifies their behavior flexibly depending on the inference.
Basically, dogs aren’t willing to ride with someone who won’t be willing to ride with their best friends.
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