Do dogs understand our intentions?: Dogs respond differently to intentional and 
unintentional actions.

Bräuer, Juliane

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Do dogs understand our intentions?: Dogs respond differently to intentional and unintentional actions.

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Bräuer, Juliane
Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;

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Bräuer, J. (2021). Do dogs understand our intentions?: Dogs respond differently to intentional and unintentional actions. Psychology Today, 202109.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0009-1F63-6

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Key points: A recent study found that dogs respond differently depending on whether a person accidentally or intentionally withholds a reward. - It is not clear yet whether dogs really understand human intentions or whether they learned to pick up on behavioural cues from the human. - Understanding intentions is one component of the theory of mind, the ability to attribute mental states to oneself and others.