“Interestingly, when you look at the entire literature on animal-assisted therapy, patterns begin to emerge. Of the different animals used in therapy, dogs are the ones associated with the largest beneficial effects on health. And although positive effects were observed… — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
“In answer to the question “What are dogs thinking?” the grand conclusion was this: they’re thinking about what we’re thinking.” — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
“Interpreting dog behavior through the lens of wolf behavior is even worse than anthropomorphizing: it’s a human anthropomorphizing wolf behavior and using that flawed… — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
“Skinner box, a device that automatically trains rats or pigeons to learn behaviors.” — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
“Lorenz, however, believed that the ideal canine companion was a “resonance dog.” He noted the extraordinary parallelism in personality between many dogs and their… — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
“stress is lowest in the morning and rises steadily throughout the day. But the presence of dogs kept self-reported stress at their morning levels… — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
“The defining trait of dogs, therefore, is their interspecies social intelligence, an ability to intuit what humans and other animals are thinking. Wolves do… — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
“Do dogs have some concept of humans as something more than food dispensers? Simply knowing that human feelings toward dogs are reciprocated in some… — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
“We love dogs, but what do they think of us? Even with just two dogs, a picture was beginning to emerge. The pattern of… — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
“organ (VNO), thought to be specialized for detecting scents from other dogs and therefore to function in some capacity for social signaling” — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
“Proof of social cognition means that dogs aren’t just Pavlovian learning machines. It means that dogs are sentient beings, and this has startling consequences… — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
“The brevity of text messages, for example, and the fact that we are able to communicate with less than 140 characters at a time… — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
A person can have the greatest idea in the world - completely different and novel - but if that person can't convince enough other… — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
