Journal
JOURNAL OF THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR
Volume 98, Issue 1, Pages 105-129Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.2012.98-105
Keywords
social reinforcement; food reinforcement; dogs; wolves; Canis lupus
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Despite the intimate relationship clogs share with humans in Western society, we know relatively little about the variables that produce and maintain dog social behavior towards humans. One possibility is that human social interaction is itself a reinforcer for dog behavior. As an initial assessment of the variables that might maintain clog social behavior, we compared the relative efficacy of brief human social interaction to a small piece of food as a reinforcer for an arbitrary response (nose touch). We investigated this in three populations of canids: shelter dogs, owned dogs, and hand-reared wolves. Across all three canid populations, brief social interaction was a relatively ineffective reinforcer compared to food for most canids, producing lower responding and longer latencies than food.
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