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Duke University

Dog Emotion and Cognition

Duke University via Coursera

Overview

Dog Emotion and Cognition will introduce you to the exciting new study of dog psychology, what the latest discoveries tell us about how dogs think and feel about us, and how we can use this new knowledge to further strengthen our relationship with our best friends.

Taught by

Brian Hare

Reviews

4.2 rating, based on 18 Class Central reviews

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  • Donato Rossella completed this course, spending 10 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be easy.

    Making references to studies on apes, human children and a few other species, the course explores some of the cognition capabilities of dog compared to other animals and to us, with an interesting insight on domestication and self domestication. Whi…
  • Anonymous

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    With all due respect It seems more like a publicity campaign to sell both the book and dog games subscriptions in order to be able to do the course, I don’t think it helps you learn that much like that, better to buy what they are selling and just use that, than to even try the course.
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    Kelli Santistevan completed this course.

    The class was interesting and it helped me to understand dogs better. Dr. Hare did a good job of explaining everything he taught every week. I felt like I understood everything I was learning in his class. I would recommend this class to anyone who wants to understand dogs better.
  • Jennifer Patrick completed this course, spending 1 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be easy.

    I really enjoyed this course. I would have given it 5 stars if all the dognition exercises had been open to participants.
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous is taking this course right now.

    I just have to take my final exam but this course was so much fun. I purchased the book and did the exercises on dognition. I learned so much.
  • Jan Shedden
    This course was informative and educational. I learnt new ideas and information about dogs and other animals that has helped my understanding of their behaviour and made me love them even more!
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    I just have to take my final exam but this course was so much fun. I purchased the book and did the exercises on dognition. I learned so much.
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