For each dog, one expression, happy or angry, was chosen to be the correct one, and the dog had to indicate that face by touching a picture of it shown on a computer display screen with their noses.

This same effect can also apply to social targets: a neutral face can ‘grab’ the emotion of the angry person next to it, causing the neutral person to be remembered as angry.

Another project, by a team of animal behaviorists and psychologists in Brazil and England, also showed that dogs identify people’s emotions by looking at their faces.

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For each dog, one expression, happy or angry, was chosen to be the correct one, and the dog had to indicate that face by touching a picture of it shown on a computer display screen with their noses.