According To A New Study The Answer Is Yes

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Do Dogs Really Judge Us?

According to a new study, the answer is yes.

WEB Experts studying how dogs behave around people have discovered that our furry friends could be judging us. Dogs are highly sensitive to human behavior and they evaluate us using both their direct experiences and from a distance.

The study, which was published in the journal "Animal Cognition," found that dogs were able to recognize individual people based on previous interactions and then judge their competence based on how they behaved in a new situation.

For the study, researchers tested 34 dogs. Each dog was shown a video of a person either successfully or unsuccessfully completing a task. The dogs were then given the opportunity to interact with the person in the video.

The researchers found that the dogs were more likely to approach and interact with the person who had successfully completed the task. This suggests that the dogs were able to judge the person's competence based on their behavior in the video.

The study's findings provide new evidence that dogs are capable of complex social cognition. They are able to recognize individual people, remember their past interactions, and judge their competence based on their behavior.

This research could have implications for how we train and interact with our dogs. It suggests that dogs may be more sensitive to our behavior than we realize, and that we should be mindful of how we treat them.

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