
3. Forget Everything You Know About Your Dog
The Freakonomics Radio Book Club
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The Cognitive Science of Dogs
She went back to school and wound up with a PhD in cognitive science from the University of California, San Diego. She was very interested in how you get answers about what animals who can't give verbal responses are thinking. And dogs wound up being a good model for looking at behavior and making inferences to mind. So it happened that way, but it hadn't happened that way to people before.
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