Kitty Cuteness Proven To Improve Human Performance + More News & Mews
Cat lovers knew this day would come. Leave it to researchers from the land of Hello Kitty to scientifically prove that simply looking at photos of cute kittens enhances work performance. A team led by a Hiroshima University professor with 130 college students conducted a study called “Power of Kawaii. Kawaii is the Japanese word for cute. The test subjects shown photos of kittens and puppies saw their manual dexterity, accuracy and speed improve 44% but only an improvement of 5% with adult cats or dogs. Click here to read the complete abstract.
Regardless of what scientists say, we know cats make us happier and we want more! After the massive success of the Cat Video festival in Minneapolis, a sequel was bound to happen, so if you’re in the Boston area, mark your calendar for this free Internet Video Cat Festival happening on October 23.
More cuteness and happy news. Rotem, an endangered sand cat gave birth to four cubs in August at the Zoological Center of Tel Aviv in Israel. Extinct in the wild, several zoos have successfully bred the sand cats with the plan to re-introduce them to their natural habitat.
We hope you’re enjoying the end of September with a few cute feline friends This is Odin and Domino from our 2012 calendar.
13 Comments
Elise
Cats certainly do make us happy ! 🙂
Texas, a cat in New York
Well, they didn’t have to do all this research, we could have told them the results!
(I can’t believe my human made me miss so many of your posts. So sorry!)
Purrs
Glogirly and Katie
Oh wow!!! The Cat Film Festival is going on tour!!! And to think, we saw it first right here in our neighborhood! Thanks for telling us about this….we have family in Boston and, OF COURSE, they love cats.
I’m going to go tell Glogirly to look at some kitten photos so she can get some work done.
; ) Katie
Ryker's Boys and Allie (@Ryker_Tyker)
How COOL! We’ve never heard of a sand cat! We gonna hafta go look that up – wonder how big they are – they look to be domestic cat sized.
Bernadette
I am totally unproductive when I am in the presence of kittens, but my joy meter is off the scale.
CATachresis
Austin can’t count!! If he could he would know when he’s had the ninth treat of the day!! 🙂
Marilia
Sweet cute little lions!
Marg
We have always known that cats make us so happy and cat pictures do make us smile. Or just plain cats make us smile too. Have a great week end.
Katnip Lounge
I have it on good authority that my cats count lizards!
Skeeter and Izzy
Oh yeah baby! The world is learning about our power! ERRR I mean cuteness…
Could this study have been initiated by our new Ruler of the World Katie? Hmmmmmmmm it would seem to be a good tool in the RULE THE WORLD tool kit…
Purrs Skeeter and Izzy >^!!^<
Zee and Zoey - Deb Barnes
Oh… now that is a job I would love to have – testing kitty pictures for cuteness!! Have a wonderful weekend all!
Brian
Wemknew someone would prove that one day!
prancer pie
We believe it. Why wouldn’t we enhance work purrformance, inspire, teach, increase intimacy, and more? WE ARE KITTEHZ!!!