Pies: Dogs can get jealous when their humans display affection toward someone or something else

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Something old, something new, something borrowed... someone else? Consensual non-monogamy in the psychoanalytic consulting room. Consensual non-monogamy (CNM) is increasingly encountered in the consulting room, and there is a need to ground this complex issue in psychoanalytic theory to better serve our couples. Self-psychological and relational analytic lenses are explored in this article as a resonant fit for polyamory. While CNM may have developmental potential in couplehood in general, defensive aspects of CNM arise in couples seen in therapy. A clinical vignette is presented as a springboard for analytic discussion where CNM is used as a defensive strategy for the avoidance of intimacy…

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34 Handover: the giving of control of or responsibility for something to someone else; when it really matters

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CAN SOMEONE UNDERSTAND SOMETHING BETTER THAN SOMEONE ELSE, AND THEREFORE CAN THERE BE AN ENDLESS ADVANCE IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE THING?

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Eileen's dad can't hug her, but I can. She want something nobody else can give: her dad's affection

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Dog intelligence or dog cognition is the process in dogs of acquiring information and conceptual skills, and storing them in memory, retrieving, combining and comparing them, and using them in new situations. Studies have shown that dogs display many behaviors associated with intelligence. They have advanced memory skills, and are able to read and react appropriately to human body language such as gesturing and pointing, and to understand human voice commands. Dogs demonstrate a theory of mind by engaging in deception, and self-awareness by detecting their own smell during the "sniff test", a proposed olfactory equivalent to the mirror test.

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Done deal-cohabiting dominant and subordinate dogs differently rely on familiar demonstrators in a detour task.. Background Companion dogs live in a mixed-species environment, where they can successfully learn from both humans and dogs. Breed type, the demonstrator's behavior, and in multi-dog households, the dogs' hierarchy are known influencing factors of the efficiency of dogs' social learning. In previous studies, always an unfamiliar dog or experimenter was the demonstrator of the given task. Now we tested social learning in a setting more relevant to the everyday life of dogs, where the demonstrator was either the owner or a cohabiting dog. We used the validated dog-rank assessment qu…

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Companion dogs show signs of jealous behaviour toward non-living agents.. Dogs engage in social interactions with robots, yet whether they perceive them as social agents remains uncertain. In jealousy-evoking contexts, specific behaviours were observed exclusively when dogs' owners interacted with social, rather than non-social rivals. Here, we investigated whether a robot elicits jealous behaviour in dogs based on its level of animateness. First, dogs observed a robot either moving mechanistically, or showing animate motions in a non-interactive, or interactive manner towards a human. Then, in consecutive trials the owner interacted with a rival dog, the robot, and read a magazine, while i…

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