Ever notice how your dog always looks vaguely heartbroken when you feel good? You’ve finally been thrown a freakin’ bone (yeah, I went there), glance at your pet, and suddenly you’re confronted with the face of someone who’s been through three wars and a difficult marriage. It makes no sense, which is exactly why scientists decided to study it.

Behavioral scientists at Arizona State University found that when people feel happy, they’re more likely to think dogs look sad, and people in a worse mood tend to see dogs as happier. In an interview with Newsweek, lead researcher Clive Wynne said, “Happy people see others as happy, sad people see others as unhappy,” a pattern long documented in human psychology.

But when it comes to dogs, the pattern flipped. “People are nothing like as good as

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