A brief note on some possible factors involved in the reactions of horses to humans

By M. Hausberger, Christine Müller. 2002

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Assessment of equine temperament by a questionnaire survey to caretakers and evaluation of its reliability by simultaneous behavior test (2003, background): “One possible reason is that the subject horses consisted of various breeds (Mader and Price, 1980; Hausberger and Muller, 2002), ages (Mader and Price, 1980), stages of training (Visser et al.”
Differences in motor laterality between breeds of performance horse (2006, background): “Breed differences in behaviour are widely reported (Mader and Price, 1980; Bagshaw et al., 1994; Clarke et al., 1996; Sappington et al., 1997; Hausberger et al., 1998; Houpt and Kusunose, 2000; Hausberger and Muller, 2002) and selection for heightened flight responses in racing breeds is more preval”
A review of the human-horse relationship (2008, background): “, 2005), scores of reactivity with a predefined scale (McCann et al., 1988a, b; Houpt and Kusunose, 2000; Hausberger and Muller, 2002; Pritchett et al., 2003) or frequencies of target behaviours such as number of interactions with the experimenter (e.”
Horse personality: Variation between breeds (2008, background): “The results of this study have provided further evidence for breed typical personalities and is supported by findings of other studies (Hausberger and Muller, 2002; Hausberger et al., 2004).”