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SUBMITTER: Neilands P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7031662 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Neilands Patrick P Claessens Scott S Ren Ivy I Hassall Rebecca R Bastos Amalia P M APM Taylor Alex H AH
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20200212 1920
Contagious yawning has been suggested to be a potential signal of empathy in non-human animals. However, few studies have been able to robustly test this claim. Here, we ran a Bayesian multilevel reanalysis of six studies of contagious yawning in dogs. This provided robust support for claims that contagious yawning is present in dogs, but found no evidence that dogs display either a familiarity or gender bias in contagious yawning, two predictions made by the contagious yawning-empathy hypothesi ...[more]