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Alexandra Horowitz,a psychology professor and major researcher at the Horowitz Dog Cognition Lab at Columbia University,conducted one of the first ____(1)____ (study)on dog “guilt” in 2009.
She videotaped 14 dogs in a series of trials and observed ____(2)____ they reacted when their owners left the room after __(3)___
(instruct)them not to eat a treat.While the owner was gone,Horowitz gave some of the dogs the forbidden treat before ____(4)____ (ask)the owners back in.
In some cases the owners ____(5)____ (tell)that their dog had eaten the treat,but in ____(6)____ (other),they were told their dog had behaved.However,Horowitz wasn't always honest with them.
Horowitz found that the dogs' guilty looks had almost nothing to do ____(7)____ whether they'd eaten the treat or not.In fact.dogs that hadn't eaten it but were scolded by misinformed owners
tended ____(8)____ (show)the most elements of the “guilty look”.
Horowitz says this shows that the dogs' body language is actually ____(9)____ response to their owner's behavior—not an experience of shame for a misdeed.
The guilty look would be ____(10)____ (well) called the “obedient look” as in “Don't punish me for whatever it is you think I did,”Horowitz wrote in The Washington Post.