Can Children of Different Ages Recognize Dog Communication Signals in Different Situations?
| Autor: | Marcela Hefferová, Eva Jozifkova, Helena Chaloupková, Petra Eretová |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty 040301 veterinary sciences Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis lcsh:Medicine Poison control 050109 social psychology Audiology Suicide prevention Article Occupational safety and health 0403 veterinary science Dogs audio communication children emotion recognition Injury prevention audio-visual communication medicine Animals Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Emotion recognition Child Set (psychology) biology lcsh:R 05 social sciences Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Human factors and ergonomics 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences contextual cues biology.organism_classification Dog communication Child Preschool dog Female Cues Vocalization Animal Comprehension inner state assessment Psychology |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Volume 17 Issue 2 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 17, Iss 2, p 506 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 1660-4601 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph17020506 |
| Popis: | The presented study examines the ability of 265 children aged 4&ndash 12 years to correctly assign contextual cues and inner state values to a set of audio and audio-visual recordings of dog vocalizations and behaviors in different situations. Participants were asked to mark which situation each recording captured, what inner state of the dog it showed, and what inner state a human would feel in the same situation. Recognition of the inner state of dogs was affected by the age of the child when evaluating the audio recordings (P < 0.001), and such a tendency was revealed in evaluating the audiovisual materials (P = 0.08). The inner state of dog evaluation was associated with both the situation assessment (P < 0.01) and human inner state (P < 0.001) in the case of audio recordings, but it was only correlated with situation assessment in audio-visual recordings (P < 0.01). The contextual situations were recognized by the participants only in the audio materials, with &ldquo stranger&rdquo being the best recognized situation, while &ldquo play&rdquo was the least recognized. Overall, children aged 4&ndash 5 years showed a limited ability to understand dog signals compared to children aged 6&ndash 12 years, who were successful in recognizing the dogs&rsquo stimuli more than 80% of the time. Therefore, children younger than 6 years of age require increased supervision when interacting with dogs. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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