van_bourg_2020 {discovr}R Documentation

Van Bourg et al. (2020) data

Description

A dataset from Field, A. P. (2026). Discovering statistics using R and RStudio (2nd ed.). London: Sage.

Usage

van_bourg_2020

Format

A tibble with 201 rows and 6 variables.

Details

Pet dogs often engage in behaviours helpful to their owners (mine likes to cuddle me when I’ve had a bad day, and in fact when I’ve had a good day, and now I think of it, pretty much any day regardless of how good or bad its been). It’s unclear whether these behaviours are truly prosocial. Can a dog engage in prosocial behaviours that haven’t been explicitly trained? Bourg et al (2020) addressed this question by trapping some dog’s owners in boxes! In the study 60 dogs were tested in three conditions all of which involved being in a room with large restrainer box (a large acrylic box with holes in the side that could be closed by resting a foam board door across its opening). Each dog had three experiences in the room and each time the experimenters were interested in whether the dog would open the restrainer box within 120 seconds. The order of the 3 experiences was counterbalanced so different dogs completed the experiences in different orders.

This data contains a subset of variables from the study, but the full dataset is available in the supplementary materials of the paper doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0231742.s001. The data contains the following variables

Source

www.discovr.rocks/csv/van_bourg_2020.csv

References


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