(1+3) The story I chose to write about today was written on 02/17/15 and is headlined, “Can Dogs Recognize Emotions Just By Looking at a Human Face.” It refers to the study, “Dogs Can Discriminate Emotional Expressions of Human Faces” from the Current Biology Journal. The authors of the study are Corsin A Muller, Kira Schmitt, Anjuli L.A. Barber and Ludwig Huber. I noticed this article two weeks ago when I was browsing through Psychology Today. This article stood out to me because had learned about facial recognition in class that day, and this article deals directly with facial recognition, but by animals, which is more interesting because it’s no longer species-specific. I normally trust this news source because it is recognized, respected and trusted by the general body. (2) The story presents the findings in a calm manner, but still represents the findings as relatively novel. The findings are reasonably believable; the author put it nicely by saying, “The most interesting finding comes after the dogs had proved that they could distinguish happy versus angry seeing only the upper or lower half of the face. When they were next shown either the other half of the face used in the training stage, or the other halves of people's faces not used in training, the dogs could still discriminate between the happy and angry expressions.” What came as a surprise to me was the fact that the dogs could distinguish a human’s emotional expression just by seeing the upper or lower half of their face. The reason I believed this story the first time I read it was due to the fact that it was written by Stanley Coren. In the middle of his article Stanley would back up things he said with other articles written for that specific topic. He also writes almost exclusively in the canine corner section, and has many books published related to dogs. There was no specified control group,