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| Project: Play with Your Dog -- Join us! |
When kids go to college, many parents have alcohol-related concerns about binge drinking or drunk driving. When I went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison -- ironically, a school known for football, cheese curds and alcohol consumption -- my mom’s biggest concern was that I would join a psychology experiment where electrodes would be attached to my body, I would be injected with Red Dye Number 3 and then infected with smallpox.
Oddly enough, this was a valid concern. My mom had grown up learning about the Tuskegee Study and the Milgram Obedience Experiment; she had doubts and suspicions about research and researchers. On top of that, she had mothered a kid (me) who liked activities off the beaten path. A sleep experiment (preferably with extra electrodes) was more up my alley than a night drinking on the town.
Now that I am involved in research as the manager of a Dog Cognition Lab, everything has changed. I am pleased to report that my mom not only approves of what I study, she thinks you should join us!
Play With your Dog, for Science
Our latest study at the Horowitz Dog Cognition Lab does not require that you sleep with electrodes or shoot gamma rays at your eyeballs. We just want to see you and your dog playing together. Really. That’s it.
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Project: Play with Your Dog is a unique study. We are investigating all the different ways people and dogs play together, and we need your help (well, you and your dogʼs help).
For the first time, we are conducting a study via crowdsourcing, asking dog owners to submit short videos of themselves playing with their dog.
Project: Play with Your Dog is open to anyone, in any country. If you live with a dog, we want to see you play!
How to Participate
Find or make a 30-60 second video of you and your dog playing in whatever way you like to play together. Then upload the video to our website and complete a short survey. Make sure the video captures you and your dog playing together. You and your dog need to both be in the shot. You are also invited to add a picture of you and your dog to our growing Wall of Contributors.
Why Play?
A recent guest post on Scientific American, How Do you Play with Your Dog?, gives background into what we know about dog play and why we are exploring the unique world of dog and human play.
Thank you for playing!
Visit: www.DogHumanPlay.com
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About Us
The Horowitz Dog Cognition Lab in NYC is run by Dr. Alexandra Horowitz, author of Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know. Our Lab conducts treat-based, behavior studies exploring the cognition of companion dogs.
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