{"pk":5382,"title":"Post-Conflict Affiliative Behaviors Towards Humans in Domestic Dogs  (Canis familiaris)","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Social species need conflict-resolution mechanisms to maintain group cohesion and diminish aggression. Reconciliation (affiliative contact between opponents) and consolation (affiliative contact between the victim and an uninvolved third party) have been postulated for this function in various species. The purpose of this work is to study post-conflict affiliative behaviors toward humans in domestic dogs. This study has looked into post-conflict affiliative behaviors in domestic dogs toward their owners. To this end, a conflict situation was created where the animal was scolded by one of the owners for “stealing” human food. Behaviors were recorded along a period of 3 min and 30 s before and after the scolding. Results show that dogs exhibit affiliative behaviors (significant increase in closeness, gazing, and tail wagging) as well as appeasement behaviors (averting eyes, low tail carriage, lowered ears, lip licking, and crouching) toward the owner that scolded them (reconciliation). In other words, this is the first work that presents reconciliation in dogs in a conflict situation with humans. It discusses the importance of this phenomenon in the dog-human bond.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"reconciliation"},{"word":"affiliative behaviors"},{"word":"domestic dogs"}],"section":"Research Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5x823238","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Camila","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cavalli","name_suffix":"","institution":"Grupo de Investigación del Comportamiento en Cánidos","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Victoria","middle_name":"","last_name":"Dzik","name_suffix":"","institution":"Grupo de Investigación del Comportamiento en Cánidos; Instituto de Investigaciones Médicas A. Lanari","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Fabricio","middle_name":"","last_name":"Carballo","name_suffix":"","institution":"Grupo de Investigación del Comportamiento en Canidos; Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Mariana","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bentosela","name_suffix":"","institution":"Grupo de Investigación del Comportamiento en Canidos","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2016-05-26T14:54:04Z","date_accepted":"2016-05-26T14:54:04Z","date_published":"2016-12-06T08:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5382/galley/3236/download/"}]}