Commentary: Oxytocin-Gaze Positive Loop and the Coevolution of Human-Dog Bonds.

Sylvain Fiset,Vickie Plourde

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01845

Sylvain Fiset, Vickie Plourde

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Commentary: Oxytocin-Gaze Positive Loop and the Coevolution of Human-Dog Bonds.

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Reviewed by: Kurt Kotrschal, University of Vienna, Austria Sandra Troxell-Smith, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
In an elegant first experiment in which domestic dogs and tamed wolves were reunited for 30 min with their owners, Nagasawa et al (2015) found that gazing behaviors from dogs, but not from wolves, increased oxytocin concentrations in owners, which in turn increased oxytocin concentrations in dogs
The increase in oxytocin in dogs and their owners correlated with the duration of dog-to-owner mutual gazing: Dogs and owners who exchanged long gazes had an increase in oxytocin, whereas oxytocin concentrations remained stable in dogs and owners that shared shorter gazes

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Reviewed by: Kurt Kotrschal, University of Vienna, Austria Sandra Troxell-Smith, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. Oxytocin-gaze positive loop and the coevolution of human-dog bonds by Nagasawa, M., Mitsui, S., En, S., Ohtani, N., Ohta, M., Sakuma, Y., et al (2015).

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