Human-like social skills in dogs?

By Brian Hare, Michael Tomasello. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2005

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Subfields: Genetics, Pharmacy, Social Psychology

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A new look at infant pointing. (2007, background): “Hare and Tomasello (2004) conducted a competitive version of the object choice task in which, instead of pointing, a human reached toward the correct bucket, but due to the physical constraints in the situation, was unable to grasp it.”
Comparative social cognition: From wolf and dog to humans (2006, background): “Thus we suggest that the detailed ethological study of dog behavior could provide a functionally analogous model to the early evolutionary stages of human socio-cognitive behavior (Miklósi, Topál, & Csányi, 2004; Hare & Tomasello, 2005).”
Selective attention to humans in companion dogs, Canis familiaris. (2010, background): “…communicative context, dogs show remarkable abilities in the recognition of human body signals: various studies have demonstrated that dogs effectively use gestural cues, such as pointed arms and fingers or gaze direction, to secure desired resources (Hare & Tomasello 2005; Miklósi & Soproni 2006).”
Breed Differences in Domestic Dogs' (Canis familiaris) Comprehension of Human Communicative Signals (2009, background): “While there is evidence to suggest that cue-following skills arose as a byproduct of selection on emotional reactivity (Hare and Tomasello 2005), it is currently unclear whether additional selection in dogs produced alterations in these abilities according to different breeding criteria.”
Craniofacial Feminization, Social Tolerance, and the Origins of Behavioral Modernity (2014, background): “Evidence from other species suggests that this noncognitive shift could have happened relatively quickly, causing profound and equally rapid changes in behavior (Hare and Tomasello 2005; Hare, Wobber, and Wrangham 2012; Réale et al. 2007).”
Theory of mind: The state of the art* (2018, background): “(For fuller coverage of some of the topics just spotlighted, see Hare & Tomasello, 2005; Wellman, 2014).”
Individual differences in cooperative communicative skills are more similar between dogs and humans than chimpanzees (2017, background): “To explain these findings, the domesticated cognition hypothesis (Hare, Wobber, & Wrangham, 2012; Hare et al., 2002, 2005) proposes that humans and dogs underwent similar selective pressures for ‘survival of the friendliest’, leading to convergent skills for cooperative communication in both…”
The use of human-given cues by domestic horses, Equus caballus, during an object choice task (2010, background): “Many primates perform poorly in object choice tasks and appear to have to learn the cues as discriminative stimuli through the testing process (Povinelli et al. 1997, 1999; Tomasello et al. 1997; Hare & Tomasello 2005; Byrnit 2009).”
Thinking with their trunks: elephants use smell but not sound to locate food and exclude nonrewarding alternatives (2014, methodology): “The object choice paradigm has been used extensively, primarily in studies with primates, birds and dogs (for reviews see Hare & Tomasello 2005; Miklósi & Soproni, 2006) and, to a lesser extent, cetaceans and elephants (see Table 1 for examples across species).”
Before and below ‘theory of mind’: embodied simulation and the neural correlates of social cognition (2007, background): “Hare & Tomasello (2005) show that dogs exhibit social communicative skills in tasks where apes fail, like finding food on the basis of human communicative gestures like pointing or gaze cues.”
The performance of stray dogs (Canis familiaris) living in a shelter on human-guided object-choice tasks (2010, background): “This behaviour has often been interpreted as evidence for a human-like social cognition in domesticated canids, including a comprehension of referential meaning and cooperative intent (Hare et al. 2002; Hare & Tomasello 2005).”
Domestic dogs are sensitive to a human's perspective (2009, background): “Another hypothesis would be, that domestication may have enhanced the development of special skills in dogs which are expressed especially in cooperative/communicative contexts (Hare & Tomasello, 2005).”
Measuring attention deficit and activity in dogs: A new application and validation of a human ADHD questionnaire (2007, neutral): “, 2004; Hare and Tomasello, 2005 for reviews) we have here introduced a novel methodological approach for studying functional analogues in the behaviour of dogs and J. Vas et al. / Applied Animal Behaviour Science 103 (2007) 105–117 111”
Human Culture in Evolutionary Perspective (2010, background): “The proposal is thus that changes in human temperament — toward greater tolerance and social comfort seeking, among other things — were prerequisite for humans beginning down their ultracooperative pathway (Hare, 2007 ; Hare & Tomasello, 2005 ).”