Man's other best friend: domestic cats (F. silvestris catus) and their discrimination of human emotion cues
Man's other best friend: domestic cats (F. silvestris catus) and their discrimination of human emotion cues
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DOI：
10.1007/s10071-015-0927-4
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发表时间：
2016-01-01
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2.7
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Vonk, Jennifer
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作者：
Galvan, Moriah;Vonk, Jennifer
家犬的能力（C。狼疮（lupus famaliaris）追随和关注人类情感表达的能力是有据可查的。目前还不清楚是否有家猫（F。silvestris卡图斯）具有类似的能力。因为猫属于同一个目（食肉目），但没有进化到生活在复杂的社会群体中，对它们的研究使我们能够区分社会结构与驯化过程对识别人类交流线索（如情感）能力的影响。进行了两个实验，以确定在何种程度上家猫区分人类的情绪线索。第一个实验在没有声音提示的情况下，向猫提供了来自陌生实验者和熟悉主人的面部和姿势的快乐和愤怒线索。第二个实验通过实验者和主人之间积极或消极的对话向猫提供人类情感的声音线索。家猫对情绪只有适度的敏感性，特别是当它们的主人展示时，这表明仅人类互动的历史可能不足以塑造家猫的这种能力。
The ability of domestic dogs (C. lupus famaliaris) to follow and attend to human emotion expressions is well documented. It is unknown whether domestic cats (F. silvestris catus) possess similar abilities. Because cats belong to the same order (Carnivora), but did not evolve to live in complex social groups, research with them enables us to tease apart the influence of social structure versus domestication processes on the capacity to recognize human communicative cues, such as emotions. Two experiments were conducted to determine the extent to which domestic cats discriminate between human emotion cues. The first experiment presented cats with facial and postural cues of happiness and anger from both an unfamiliar experimenter and their familiar owner in the absence of vocal cues. The second experiment presented cats with vocal cues of human emotion through a positively or negatively charged conversation between an experimenter and owner. Domestic cats were only modestly sensitive to emotion, particularly when displayed by their owner, suggesting that a history of human interaction alone may not be sufficient to shape such abilities in domestic cats.