Re:Dogs distinguish human intentional and unintentional action
by pxc on Sunday September 05, 2021 @11:51AM
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> Did the dog differentiate the scenarios based on intent or did it recognize my apologetic behaviour as non threatening?
Apologetic behavior is a pretty good post-facto signal of intent! Humans also rely on it with each other. So I'm not sure that relying on sort of secondary signals like that is a real problem for the theory that dogs can read and care about human intent.
Apologetic behavior is a pretty good post-facto signal of intent! Humans also rely on it with each other. So I'm not sure that relying on sort of secondary signals like that is a real problem for the theory that dogs can read and care about human intent.