The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
So we are typically better at reading gross body language than we are at reading facial expressions. Apparently, one of the reasons being that dogs move different facial muscles when they make emotional facial expressions, they move different muscles than what humans do.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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So that would I think bias us to misreading dogs facial expressions uh from that perspective. But then again if we live with dogs we start we we won't observe just the facial expression. We will observe the entire dog. And we're often better off reading their body language than we are reading their facial expression.