Examining dog-human play: the characteristics, affect, and vocalizations of a unique interspecific interaction
Examining dog-human play: the characteristics, affect, and vocalizations of a unique interspecific interaction
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DOI：
10.1007/s10071-016-0976-3
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发表时间：
2016-07-01
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2.7
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Hecht, Julie
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作者：
Horowitz, Alexandra;Hecht, Julie
尽管人们对人与狗之间的互动研究越来越感兴趣，但只有很少的研究项目关注狗与主人之间的日常生活。在这项研究中，我们调查了这样一种惯例：狗-人游戏。二元种间游戏被认为是一种常见的主人和电荷之间的相互作用，但什么算作游戏的细节还没有得到彻底的研究。同样，尽管人们认为“游戏”是令人愉快的，但还没有研究确定不同形式的游戏是否与不同的情感状态有关。因此，我们的目的是产生一个清单的形式的二元游戏，在游戏中的发声，并调查的关系，影响的元素发挥。通过一个全球公民科学项目，我们向狗主人征集了狗与人玩耍的录像带。我们通过逐帧视频回放编码了187场比赛。然后，我们评估了各种回合内变量和主人的影响（积极或中性）在玩（狗的影响是压倒性的积极）之间的关系。身体接触（“触摸”），主人的活动水平（“运动”），狗主人的身体亲密度（“接近”）与积极的影响高度相关。主人发声被发现包含不同的元素，积极和中性的影响发挥。一个新的类别的发挥，“戏弄”，我们发现，并不是所有的发挥是平等的：经验的发挥业主参与者是密切相关的一些可识别的特征的互动。
Despite the growing interest in research on the interaction between humans and dogs, only a very few research projects focus on the routines between dogs and their owners. In this study, we investigated one such routine: dog-human play. Dyadic interspecific play is known to be a common interaction between owner and charge, but the details of what counts as play have not been thoroughly researched. Similarly, though people represent that "play" is pleasurable, no study has yet undertaken to determine whether different forms of play are associated with different affective states. Thus, we aimed to generate an inventory of the forms of dyadic play, the vocalizations within play, and to investigate the relationship of affect to elements of play. Via a global citizen science project, we solicited videotapes of dog-human play sessions from dog owners. We coded 187 play bouts via frame-by-frame video playback. We then assessed the relationship between various intra-bout variables and owner affect (positive or neutral) during play (dog affect was overwhelmingly positive). Amount of physical contact ("touch"), level of activity of owner ("movement"), and physical closeness of dog-owner dyad ("proximity") were highly correlated with positive affect. Owner vocalizations were found to contain different elements in positive- and neutral-affect play. One novel category of play, "tease", was found. We conclude that not all play is created equal: the experience of play to the owner participant is strongly related to a few identifiable characteristics of the interaction.