New research suggests that humans care more about their canine companions than they do about one another.
This research comes from the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict at Northeastern University in Boston.
For the study, co-authors Jack Levin and Arnold Arluke set out to determine how empathy works in the human brain.
Professors Levin and Arluke gathered 240 men and women between the ages of 18 and 25 and asked them to read a series of fictional news stories about different subjects being beaten — a toddler, a 30-something adult, a puppy, and a 6-year-old dog.
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