{"id":242546,"date":"2026-08-11T09:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/sad-or-afraid-dogs-may-be-able-to-read-your-face"},"modified":"2026-08-11T09:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:08:07","slug":"sad-or-afraid-dogs-may-be-able-to-read-your-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/sad-or-afraid-dogs-may-be-able-to-read-your-face","title":{"rendered":"Sad or afraid? Dogs may be able to read your face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sad-or-afraid-dogs-may-be-able-to-read-your-face.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dogs may be even more attuned to people\u2019s feelings than we think.<\/p>\n<p>Man\u2019s best friend has a knack for knowing what humans are thinking, reading signs as subtle as jangling keys or a dangling leash. But a new brain-imaging study suggests that dogs may even be able to <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.isci.2026.116900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">distinguish between certain negative emotions<\/a> without using clues like our body language, odor or words. Just looking at people\u2019s faces may be enough, scientists report August 10 in <em>iScience<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dogs may be even more attuned to people\u2019s feelings than we think. Man\u2019s best friend has a knack for knowing what humans are thinking, reading signs as subtle as jangling keys or a dangling leash. But a new brain-imaging study suggests that dogs may even be able to distinguish between certain negative emotions without using [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}