Dog Quote by 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 that flawed…

— 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 and their…

— 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 morning levels…

— Gregory Berns

“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

“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

“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 startling consequences…

— Gregory Berns