Domestic animals often seek and enjoy interacting with humans. Positive human–animal
relationships can elicit positive emotions and other positive welfare outcomes. Nevertheless …

Simple Summary Equine assisted interventions (EAIs) represent an emerging field of animal
assisted interventions (AAIs), employing horses in a wide variety of activities with humans …

A new edition of a highly respected textbook and reference in the rapidly emerging field of
equitation science. Equitation Science, 2nd Edition incorporates learning theory into ethical …

Aims A concept analysis was conducted to clarify the attributes, antecedents and meaning of
equine‐assisted therapy and present an operational definition. Design Concept analysis …

Simple Summary The ability to perceive other individuals' emotions plays a central role for
animals living in social groups. Cats entertain social relationships with individuals of the …

For humans, facial expressions are important social signals, and how we perceive specific
individuals may be influenced by subtle emotional cues that they have given us in past …

Emotional contagion, a basic component of empathy defined as emotional state-matching
between individuals, has previously been shown in dogs even upon solely hearing negative …

In the past 20 years, research focusing on interspecific sociocognitive abilities of animals
toward humans has been growing, allowing a better understanding of the interactions …

The study of emotional functioning is of crucial importance for improving the welfare of
domestic animals. The investigation of animal emotions is mainly based on the outcomes of …

Objective The sense of olfaction has been considered of minor importance in human
communication. In recent years, evidence has emerged that humans might be influenced by …