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When you’re happy and you show it, dogs know it

New test looks at how well canines can read faces

dog looking at a screen in a lab

MAD OR HAPPY  Dogs take a new computer-based test to see how good they are at distinguishing between happy or angry human faces.

Anjuli Barber/Messerli Research Institute

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

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Sit. Stay. Discriminate. Dogs really may be as good as their owners claim at distinguishing emotional expressions in a human face, researchers report online February 12 in Current Biology.