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Dogs’ Reversal of Dominance Preferences in Human Social Worlds

2026-05-04

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Social hierarchy structures social life across species, yet how dogs—a species deeply intertwined with humans—perceive human social hierarchies remains unknown. Do dogs generalize their own dominance‑avoidance social rules to humans, or adopt the human tendency to prefer dominant individuals? Across five experiments, we show that dogs reliably prefer dominant humans but avoid dominant c...

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39279135-514e-562f-9a9e-da57f3ace387
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10.21203/rs.3.rs-9550941/v1
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