All this is not our fiction, there is real research supporting the opinion that dogs adore their owners. The zoopsychologist says that all sorts of chemical processes appear in the heads of our pets when they are near people. It's true.
It is not known exactly how long ago man began to domesticate the dog, but some scientists believe that our friendship may have its roots in a time 40 thousand years ago. Dogs continue all this time to live next to humans, once helping us to hunt mammoths, and now just playing and running after a stick.
"Of course, dogs love their people," says animal psychologist Amy Shojay. - Both humans and dogs release the hormone oxytocin when interacting with someone they like. The same "love hormone" increases the attachment of a young mother to her newborn child."
Even the owner's scent is enough to make a dog happy. A study published in 2015 in the journal Behavioral Processes found that a dog's unique scent was associated with pleasure in dogs. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which measures the level of activity of nerve cells in the brain, the researchers were able to get an inside look at how dogs perceive their human scent as opposed to other unfamiliar dogs and humans. The team of researchers found that when the pets smelled the owner, the pleasure center, called the caudate nucleus in the brain, was activated in their heads. They no longer have such a reaction to any smell.
We also know that dogs respond positively to our conversation with the silly, squeaky voice we all use when talking to our pets. Researchers at the University of York recently found that talking to dogs is not normal, but this is the voice animals perceive more positively.
The study involved 37 dogs who listened to people talking to them. First, in such a "dog language" - a high voice and "dog" phrases like "Who is a good dog? You're a good dog!”, Then in a regular voice about ordinary things, like going to the movies yesterday. The vast majority of dogs preferred dog-style conversation, which scientists have compared to how we talk to children.
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Perhaps we will never reveal all the secrets of what is happening in the heads of our pets, but one thing we know for sure: dogs are good and we become better thanks to them.
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