Why We Think Cats Are Psychopaths
When Becky Evans started studying cat-human relationships, she kept hearing, over and over again, about how cats are psychopaths. Evans, a psychology graduate student at the University of Liverpool, recently devised a survey for owners who think that their cats are psychopaths. There’s always an implicit comparison when we talk about cats as aloof little jerks, says Mikel Maria Delgado, a postdoctoral researcher on cat behavior at the University of California at Davis.
