Weekend Reads | Dogs are 'Man's Best Friend,' but Can We Ever Truly Know How They Feel?

Weekend Reads | Dogs are 'Man's Best Friend,' but Can We Ever Truly Know How They Feel?

A pair of researchers at Arizona State University decided to look at what factors might influence how people perceive dog emotions. Rather than trying to mix-and-match a list of possible emotions they might be feeling, the researchers decided to limit the measurement of emotion to two metrics: valence, the extent to which a feeling is good or bad; and arousal, how excited the feeling makes us. It turns out that you can map a wide range of emotio…