Aug 3, 2026 · 41 min · 12 segments
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And it's about... positive psychology which is so there's like most of the time when you think about psychology and like the dsm for people who are like it's like what are you going to get diagnosed with is a problem
negative psychology
problem and then positive psychology is this feeling that kind of came out in the 80s as a name that's like here's stuff that makes people happy and it's things like gratitude and mindfulness and loyalty and purpose and a sense of awe
values
a sense of fairness yeah it's a lot of like values and like living with those values but also like having a sense of humor and um
companionship
companionship yeah just like what's what's that stuff that makes you happy and there and there's a list there's like 26 of them here's what the things are here's how we see them manifesting in people And there are things that like make you live well.
And when I was putting together the proposal for this book, I was like, dogs do a lot of these things.
Not all of them.
Like, I don't, we don't really have any evidence that dogs have like a sense of spirituality, for example.
Not a
lot of dog religious observance.
It's not really religion, but like a sense of spirituality or that there's sort of like something bigger.
That's one of the things in the book.
And it's like, all right, dogs, probably not that.
Or at least no science that says dogs have that.
But, A lot of the other stuff they do have, like they do have a sense of humor, like dogs laugh.
There's like really interesting science about dogs laughing in there.
They definitely trick, do tricks.
Yes, they do tricks.
They
can play tricks.
have a lot of stuff about dogs playing tricks in there um they have a sense of fairness there's this great study where um so there will be like people bring their dogs into like the research lab and their owner will sit down on like a bench and then an experimenter will go up and the owner has like a tupperware container and they pretend like they can't get the lid to come off And, and so say like, I'm the owner and you're the experimenter.
So I'll be, I'll pretend like I can't get the lid off and then I'll sort of show it to you to ask for help.
And in some conditions you'll help me.
And it's about... positive psychology which is so there's like most of the time when you think about psychology and like the dsm for people who are like it's like what are you going to get diagnosed with is a problem
negative psychology
problem and then positive psychology is this feeling that kind of came out in the 80s as a name that's like here's stuff that makes people happy and it's things like gratitude and mindfulness and loyalty and purpose and a sense of awe
values
a sense of fairness yeah it's a lot of like values and like living with those values but also like having a sense of humor and um
companionship
companionship yeah just like what's what's that stuff that makes you happy and there and there's a list there's like 26 of them here's what the things are here's how we see them manifesting in people And there are things that like make you live well.
And when I was putting together the proposal for this book, I was like, dogs do a lot of these things.
Not all of them.
Like, I don't, we don't really have any evidence that dogs have like a sense of spirituality, for example.
Not a
lot of dog religious observance.
It's not really religion, but like a sense of spirituality or that there's sort of like something bigger.
That's one of the things in the book.
And it's like, all right, dogs, probably not that.
Or at least no science that says dogs have that.
But, A lot of the other stuff they do have, like they do have a sense of humor, like dogs laugh.
There's like really interesting science about dogs laughing in there.
They definitely trick, do tricks.
Yes, they do tricks.
They
can play tricks.
have a lot of stuff about dogs playing tricks in there um they have a sense of fairness there's this great study where um so there will be like people bring their dogs into like the research lab and their owner will sit down on like a bench and then an experimenter will go up and the owner has like a tupperware container and they pretend like they can't get the lid to come off And, and so say like, I'm the owner and you're the experimenter.
So I'll be, I'll pretend like I can't get the lid off and then I'll sort of show it to you to ask for help.
And in some conditions you'll help me.
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