Learn how to feel, behave when shame, apologize for dogs

Studies by a famous dog expert, Alexandra Horowitz of Barnard University, show that humans are not good at guessing the feelings of guilt or shame of dogs.

We often see those emotions when they're not there, ie when the dogs don't feel that way or they don't do anything to feel guilty or embarrassed.

Pascale Lemire, author of the Dogshaming website, said that dogs don't really know how to feel ashamed or guilty, but they're good at using sad faces to make us feel they are truly sorry and forgive. them.

Very good dogs use sad faces.(Photo: livescience.com)

Horowitz himself said that his research is not about whether dogs know how to feel guilty and hope that future research will help answer that question. That is, until now, there has been no official conclusion that a dog may feel guilty or ashamed of doing something against their owners.

However, there are quite solid biological bases to speculate about the dog's ability to perceive guilt . We cannot be sure of this possibility, but if other mammals have the same emotional basis in the dog-like brain, they also experience feelings of guilt, pride or shame as well as emotions. Another complication, there is no reason why dogs do not have the same ability.

Other bio-evolutionary bases also claim that dogs really have this ability. Charles Darwin once mentioned the evolutionary continuum, in which species differ in the degree of evolution rather than species. If we have or have experienced something, other animals can.

The question of dog's ability to perceive guilt has opened up a new interesting research direction for scientists. Further research combining mass science with dog emotions and other phenomena along with reliable data will help us decipher the secret behind the puppy's face that always makes us scare. That heart forgives them.