Gregory Berns

“In answer to the question “What are dogs thinking?” the grand conclusion was this: they’re thinking about what we’re thinking.”

— Gregory Berns

“But can you really trust someone who doesn’t have a pet?”

— Gregory Berns

“Interpreting dog behavior through the lens of wolf behavior is even worse than anthropomorphizing: it’s a human anthropomorphizing wolf behavior and using…

— Gregory Berns

“Did you guys hear there was a dog on the SEAL team?”

— Gregory Berns

“Skinner box, a device that automatically trains rats or pigeons to learn behaviors.”

— Gregory Berns

“Lorenz, however, believed that the ideal canine companion was a “resonance dog.” He noted the extraordinary parallelism in personality between many dogs…

— Gregory Berns

“The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animal,”

— Gregory Berns

“stress is lowest in the morning and rises steadily throughout the day. But the presence of dogs kept self-reported stress at their…

— Gregory Berns

“The defining trait of dogs, therefore, is their interspecies social intelligence, an ability to intuit what humans and other animals are thinking.…

— Gregory Berns

“Do dogs have some concept of humans as something more than food dispensers? Simply knowing that human feelings toward dogs are reciprocated…

— Gregory Berns

“We love dogs, but what do they think of us? Even with just two dogs, a picture was beginning to emerge. The…

— Gregory Berns

“organ (VNO), thought to be specialized for detecting scents from other dogs and therefore to function in some capacity for social signaling”

— Gregory Berns

“Proof of social cognition means that dogs aren’t just Pavlovian learning machines. It means that dogs are sentient beings, and this has…

— Gregory Berns

“The brevity of text messages, for example, and the fact that we are able to communicate with less than 140 characters at…

— Gregory Berns

A person can have the greatest idea in the world - completely different and novel - but if that person can't convince…

— Gregory Berns

“Their entrance was marked in dramatic fashion by an ear-piercing “Eeeeeee! Eeeeeee! Eeeeeee!” I rushed out of the kitchen. My colleague’s wife,…

— Gregory Berns

“According to the American Treeing Feist Association, the treeing feist, or mountain feist, existed in the southern Appalachians long before rat terriers…

— Gregory Berns

“times. The only universities that allow dogs a relatively free run of campus are Stetson University and Eckerd College in Florida, the…

— Gregory Berns

“Unable to resist the scent of hot dogs, she padded up to the top of the steps, but once there, she balked…

— Gregory Berns

“Eventually, I came to the conclusion that the key to improving dog-human relationships is through social cognition, not behaviorism. Positive reinforcement is…

— Gregory Berns

There is, of course, great value in belonging to a group. Safety in numbers, for one. But there is also a mathematical…

— Gregory Berns

Because humans, in effect, created dogs through domestication, the canine mind reflects back to us how we see ourselves through the eyes,…

— Gregory Berns

“this was going to work.”

— Gregory Berns

“The most touching photo was of a dog strapped to the chest of a soldier parachuting out of an airplane at thirty…

— Gregory Berns

“The brevity of text messages, for example, and the fact that we are able to communicate with less than 140 characters at…

— Gregory Berns