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Pet Dogs Succeed Where Human Companions Fail: The Presence of Pet Dogs Reduces Pain

2023-02-15

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Social support from family and friends, albeit associated with beneficial health effects, does not always help to cope with pain. This may be because humans elicit mixed expectations of social support and evaluative judgment. The present studies aimed to test whether pet dogs are a more beneficial source of support in a painful situation than human companions, because they are not evaluative. For this, 74 and then...

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Literature Corpus work: af090bb0-0208-5791-9792-0c76c9d49caa
DOI: 10.22541/au.167648414.45788450/v1

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