Elegant, cold, independent, probably the most commonly used word to describe cats. However, no matter what the cat's actual personality is or whether it likes to interact with people, "hiding its weaknesses" is still the instinct that...
Elegant, cold, independent, probably the most commonly used word to describe cats.
However, no matter what the cat's actual personality is or whether it likes to interact with people, "hiding its weaknesses" is still the instinct that they engraved in their bones and a valuable asset accumulated in the natural competition of survival of the fittest.
We can usually comprehensively judge cats' emotional and health changes based on changes in behavior, posture and activity.
However, if you only look at facial expressions, are you sure to accurately judge the cat's emotions?
For cats who are very good at hiding emotions, it is very important to recognize changes in tiny expressions.
Humans themselves have the talent for fast and fine expression processing, which makes us very good at discovering short and slight expression changes, and there are indeed some similar facial expressions among mammals.
Therefore, LC Dawson and others designed a study on whether humans can accurately identify cats' emotions because they were curious about how much humans could understand cats' emotions, and based on the research results, they found out the types of people who are better at identifying cats' emotions. The
study screened out 40 short videos of cats (20 positive and negative emotions each, both without obvious changes such as aircraft ears). In the video, except for the cat's head, the rest of the pictures were blocked. Each volunteer watched 20 of these videos and judged whether the cat's emotional performance in each video was positive or negative. A total of 6,329 volunteers completed the study. Volunteers are more likely to accurately determine cats expressing positive emotions (especially active cats), but the overall average score is low (11.85/20). Researchers believe that identifying tiny expression changes in cats is challenging, but some people are indeed very good! Good! long!
After analyzing the research results, the researchers found that differences in cat raising experiences had little impact on the research results. In other words, whether it is a new cat shoveler in one month or a ten-year veteran, a single cat family or a multi-cat family, a close or distant cat: those who cannot understand the master's emotions will never be able to understand.
