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. 2024 Aug 16:12:7.
doi: 10.5334/jopd.109. eCollection 2024.

Data from ManyDogs 1

Manydogs Project; Julia Espinosa  1 , Elizabeth Hare  2 , Daniela Alberghina  3 , Bryan Mitchel Perez Valverde  4 , Jeffrey R Stevens  5
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Data from ManyDogs 1

Manydogs Project et al. J Open Psychol Data. .

Abstract

The ManyDogs 1 study is the first multi-site collaborative study of dogs' responses to human pointing. It addressed whether dogs perceive the gesture as socially communicative and are therefore more likely to follow the point when it is paired with additional social signals (ManyDogs Project, et al., 2023b). Researchers from 20 research sites across eight countries collected data from 704 dogs. Here, we present not only the behavior data on the dogs' responses to experimental pointing conditions but also guardian responses to survey questions, including the Canine Behavior and Research Questionnaire (C-BARQ, Hsu and Serpell, 2003). This dataset allows for assessing associations among C-BARQ measures as well as connections to the experimental task data, research site metadata, and other dog and guardian characteristic data.

Keywords: Canine; Dog; Interspecies interaction; Pointing; Social communication.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no competing interests to declare.

Figures

World map with participating countries in blue.
Figure 1
ManyDogs 1 data presented here were collected from 20 research sites in eight countries: Argentina, Canada, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Poland, UK, USA (dark blue). Pilot data not included in this dataset were collected from a site in Austria (light blue).
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