New study shows dogs ignore bad human advice

By Sean Dowling, Buzz60

Ever give your dog a command only to see him or her not perform it? Ever wonder, did my dog just give me the side eye?

Maybe.

A new study shows dogs ignore bad advice from their owners.

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That's according to new research from psychologists at Yale's Canine Cognition Center, published in the journal Developmental Science.

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For the experiment, a treat was placed inside a puzzle, and researchers demonstrated how to get it out.

It was a simple process.

All the dogs had to do was lift the lid of a box, but researchers purposefully tried misleading the dogs, getting them to push a lever attached to the box.

The lever didn't actually do anything.

When researchers left the room, it didn't take long for the pups to ignore the command of using the lever and head straight for the treat.

If you're thinking, big deal, they just lifted the lid, get this:

A similar study was done in 2005, which focused on kids getting bad advice to solve a puzzle where they were told to move a lever and then lift a lid to get their prize. Those actions were unnecessary but the children repeatedly performed the steps even when they were in a race to solve the puzzle as quickly as possible.

Dogs, on the other hand, cut out the unnecessary step to get straight to the treat.