Your dog’s “guilty look” isn’t guilt, and once you understand what it really is, you’ll stop accidentally confusing or stressing your dog. If you’ve lived with a dog long enough, you’ve seen it. Head lowered. Eyes averted. Body slightly curved inward. A stillness that feels almost apologetic. Millions of dog owners across the world interpret that posture the same way: “My dog feels bad about what they did.” It feels familiar and comforting to think of dogs as small humans who share our sense of right and wrong. And because we care, we want that to be true. In 2009, animal cognition researcher Alexandra Horowitz tested this assumption. In a controlled experiment, dogs were placed in situations where some disobeyed a command, some did not, and humans were told whether the dog had misbehaved or not, regardless of reality. Dogs displayed the “guilty look” when their human acted as if they were displeased, showing that the behavior tracked human emotional signals rather than the dog’s o...
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