Christine Harris

Who they are

The work of Christine Harris reaches this site through the paper listed below. On this site the name is tied to Jealousy.

Key papers

Harris, C. R., & Prouvost, C. (2014). Jealousy in dogs. PLoS ONE, 9(7), e94597. What it reports: Thirty-six dogs watched their owners act affectionately toward a realistic stuffed dog, a pail or a book. The dogs pushed, touched and tried to get between owner and object far more often when the object was the stuffed dog, which the authors read as a basic form of jealousy shared with human infants.

Key ideas

Jealousy: The feeling that a valued bond or share of attention is moving toward a rival, seen in experiments from infancy onward.

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