Is Your Dog Really Guilty When It Gives You the “Guilty Look?”

This is a really interesting study. Alexandra Horowitz, from Barnard College in New York, uncovered the origins of the “guilty look” in dogs in the recently  published “Canine Behaviour and Cognition” Special Issue of Elsevier’s Behavioural Processes. Check it out:

http://www.impactlab.com/2009/06/11/is-your-dog-really-guilty-when-he-has-the-guilty-look/