This study groups breeds by genetic clades, rather than by historical working functions or morphology, and through a dual culture approach, attempts to deal with the confounding effect of environment.
This 2015 Swedish correlational study used owner surveys to describe relationships between dog breeds and everyday behavior.
This study researched the impact of excluding food guarding from a standardized behavioral canine assessment in animal shelters.
Using a detailed hypothetical with statistics drawn from the canine literature, the authors explain why behavior evaluations are “no better than flipping a coin.”
This study is included because the assessment developed has been adopted by other researchers due to its brevity and reported validity.
This is a two-part study that investigated factors that might mediate “aggression,” “fear,” and “anxiety” on behavior evaluations of shelter and pet dogs.
This study is an interesting attempt at combining a retrospective and prospective approach to validating a behavior evaluation.
This study assessed inter-rater reliability and intra-rater repeatability among 40 staff members at the largest canine welfare charity in the UK with respect to canine behavior evaluations.
This study focused specifically on the food guarding subtest of the Safety Assessment for Evaluating Rehoming behavior evaluation, which is commonly used in shelters.
This study evaluated a specific subtest used in many common behavior evaluations. Researchers compared shelter dogs’ behaviors towards both a live and a fake dog.