Data

Owners from Hungary (N=591) and from Germany
(N=2283) were asked to rate their level of agreement on a 1-5 Likert scale with
statements about the reactivity of their dogs to their emotions and to other
dogs’ behaviour. We created two scales with satisfactory internal reliability:
reactivity to the owner’s emotion
and reactivity to other dogs’ behaviour. In addition we also examined how anthropomorphism,
contagious yawning, attitude toward the dog are related to emotional reactivity
in dogs as perceived by the owner, we examined how owners rate dog
pictures.