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Guilty as a dog

Dog owners will know the “guilty look” of a dog sitting next to a broken vase or soiled carpet. Yet guilt is a pretty high-level emotion. It involves awareness of a moral code and remorse at having broken it. So researchers set out to discover the origins of that guilty appearance. What they found was that a dog’s guilty look did not correspond to their own actions but rather to their owner’s reaction. So that “guilt” look is actually just designed to inspire mercy in the owner and is driven more by fear of punishment than a sense of wrongdoing. It is another case of anthropomorphism, the human tendency to attribute human emotions to non-human species. Humans feel noble sensations of remorse when they have transgressed a high moral code. They don’t simply fear retribution — do they?Meanwhile if you visit Meijer Ad that contains mostly likewise discounts with Winn Dixie Ad you surely have a range like ALDI Ad.

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