Data from ManyDogs 1

Authors

• Many Dogs, USA
• Julia Espinosa, Harvard University
• Elizabeth Hare, Dog Genetics LLC, NY
• Daniela Alberghina, University of Messina
• Bryan Mitchel Perez Valverde, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
• Jeffrey R. Stevens, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

ORCID IDs

Espinosa https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0780-2762

Hare https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3978-2543

Alberghina https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2826-0325 

Perez Valverde https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0319-4608

Stevens https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2375-1360

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2024

Citation

Journal of Open Psychology Data (2025) 12(7): 1–26

doi: 10.5334/jopd.109

Comments

Open access

License: CC BY 4.0

Abstract

The ManyDogs 1 study is the first multi-site collaborative study of dogs’ responses to human pointing. It addressed whether dogs perceive the gesture as socially communicative and are therefore more likely to follow the point when it is paired with additional social signals (ManyDogs Project, et al., 2023b). Researchers from 20 research sites across eight countries collected data from 704 dogs. Here, we present not only the behavior data on the dogs’ responses to experimental pointing conditions but also guardian responses to survey questions, including the Canine Behavior and Research Questionnaire (C-BARQ, Hsu and Serpell, 2003). This dataset allows for assessing associations among C-BARQ measures as well as connections to the experimental task data, research site metadata, and other dog and guardian characteristic data.