To work round this, the researchers presented 18 dogs of various breeds with four separate 20-second conditions. They included their owner crying, a stranger crying and both taking it in turns to hum "Mary had a little lamb". All four of these conditions were preceded by two minutes of mundane conversation between Ms Mayer, who filled the role of the stranger, and the dog's owner.
为了能够正确解读狗的反应,研究者在实验中采用了18条不同品种的狗并将它们分别置于时长均为20秒的四种不同的情境中,分别为主人在一旁哭泣、陌生人在一旁哭泣、主人与陌生人轮流对狗狗哼唱《玛丽有只小羊羔》。在每种情境开始前,梅耶女士都会充当陌生人的角色与狗的主人进行时长两分钟的常规交谈。
Dr Custance and Ms Mayer suspected that if exposure to crying led dogs to feel distress, then regardless of who was crying, the dog would go to their master to seek comfort. They also theorised that if curiosity, rather than empathy, was the driving force, then the humming would cause dogs to engage with people.
科斯坦斯博士与梅耶女士猜想如果狗看到人类哭泣会感到悲伤的话,无论是其主人还是陌生人,狗都会去主人那里寻求安慰。他们还建立了一个理论,如果使狗接近人类的是它们好奇心而非感情上的共鸣,那么哼唱小曲同样会使狗跟人类进行互动。
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