For generations, dog owners have believed their pets can sense when something is wrong. Now scientists say they have found ...

New research published in the journal iScience explored that question, and revealed interesting findings from magnetic ...

Dogs are known to recognize and respond to human facial expressions, but a new study shows how deeply they understand our ...

A new study offers clues about how dogs process human facial expressions and recognize our emotional cues.

A new brain-imaging study suggests that dogs may be able to distinguish between certain negative human emotions just by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Still a good boy. (susaro/E+/Getty Images) Dogs have far smaller brains than their wolf relatives, and now a study led by ...

By studying their brains, we can understand what adaptations have developed to support their remarkable social and emotional understanding of humans." How Dogs' Brains Respond to Human Smiles The ...

MRI scans suggest dogs can distinguish fear from sadness and anger in human faces, revealing more detailed emotional processing than previously known.

What causes a dog to slink away from a cranky person, when they will quietly approach and lean against someone who is weeping ...

MRI scans of 85 dogs show that modern pedigree breeds have a larger cortex and a smaller amygdala than dogs from less ...

There is a large amount of behavioral evidence which suggests that dogs are quite good at reading human emotions (click here, here, or here for examples). However a new study extends our knowledge ...