Raw data_Investigating emotional contagion in dog.xlsx

We conducted a playback study with dogs to investigate canine empathy. We tested 53 dogs and played back non-emotional sounds of the dogs' environment and contrasted these sounds with emotional sounds of humans and conspecifics. These emotional sounds contained a negatively and a positively valenced sound each. We measured the duration the subjects looked to their owners and whether they approached her or him. We also measured the duration the dogs looked to the loudspeaker that played back the stimulus and whether the dog approached it. We, furthermore, analysed ten behavioural indicators for negatively valenced states in dogs which we pooled together to develop an overall Relative Reactivity Score.