{"pk":30051,"title":"Evidence for Win-Stay-Lose-Shift in Puppies and Adult Dogs","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Many organisms encounter situations where they lackinformation required to successfully exploit a resource. Onestable strategy that may be particularly useful is a win-stay-lose-shift strategy, in which an individual continues toperform a behavior that has proven fruitful in the recent pastor otherwise shifts to a new behavior. Here we investigatewhether domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) use a win-stay-lose-shift strategy utilizing data from 326 puppies and 323 adultdogs on a repeated object-choice task. We found a significanteffect of previous-trial success on dogs’ subsequent searchpatterns. Specifically, dogs were more likely to shift searchlocations if they were unsuccessful on the previous trial.These findings suggest that puppies and adult dogs win-stay-lose-shift.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"win-stay-lose-shift; strategies; dogs; evolution"}],"section":"Poster Session 3","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0d73306j","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Molly","middle_name":"","last_name":"Byrne","name_suffix":"","institution":"Boston College","department":""},{"first_name":"Emily","middle_name":"E.","last_name":"Bray","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Arizona","department":""},{"first_name":"Evan","middle_name":"L.","last_name":"MacLean","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Arizona","department":""},{"first_name":"Angie","middle_name":"M.","last_name":"Johnston","name_suffix":"","institution":"Boston College","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/30051/galley/19905/download/"}]}