But the second finding was even more compelling: The study participants experienced higher brain activity when petting the dog versus interacting with the stuffed animal. This is in line with ...

lot of hollering and hooping and laughing and *** lot of fun. You doing this? Yeah, the, the petting that we've got ghost sheep, all kinds of stuff, animals from all over the world. Antelope. We've ...

They also compared that to petting a stuffed animal. Advertisement They found that when study participants viewed, felt and touched real dogs it led to increasingly high levels of activity in the ...

Petting a dog showed a boost in brain activity ... In the study, researchers put brain scanners on people and had them pet a stuffed animal and a live dog. They found there was a big boost ...

But the pervasiveness of animal-petting in the last few years ... It’s possible that my tolerance for this sort of stuff is higher than yours because I’m lacking in actual furry friends.

The study found that the effect of petting the dog lasted even after the dog was removed. The participants then performed the same interactions with a stuffed animal lion that was filled with a ...