Turner Dennis C
Institute for Applied Ethology and Animal Psychology, I.E.A.P./I.E.T., Horgen, Switzerland.
Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Front Vet Sci. 2021 Mar 31;8:650143. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2021.650143. eCollection 2021.
This is a mini review that summarizes what is known from quantitative observational studies of social interactions between domestic cats and humans in both laboratory colonies and the home setting. Only results from data that have been statistically analyzed are included; hypotheses still to be tested will be declared as such. In some cases, the observational data have been combined with independently collected subjective assessments by the owners of the animals' character and owner personality traits to help interpret the data. Further some relevant experimental studies are also included. All social interactions between cats and humans that are discussed below assume that the animals were socialized to people as kittens, the first topic of this review. Such socialized cats show what might be called "friendliness to humans," which in turn affects human attachment to the cat. The visual and acoustic behavioral elements used to communicate and interact with other cats can be perceived by people and are also employed by the cats when interacting with them. The initiation, and the initiator of social interactions between cats and humans have been shown to influence both the duration of the interaction bout and total interaction time in the relationship. Compliance with the interactional "wishes" of the partner is positively correlated between the cats and the humans over all human-cat dyads examined. Cats do not spontaneously prefer one gender or age cohort of people, but the humans in those cohorts behave differently to the cats causing the latter to react differentially. The dyadic interaction structure has also been shown to differ between women and men and between older and younger adults. Nevertheless, cats-merely their presence but of course their behavior-can affect human moods and human mood differences have been shown to affect the behavior of the cats. Finally, differences have been found between interactions with purebred and non-purebred cats and between younger and older cats.
这是一篇小型综述，总结了在实验室猫群和家庭环境中对家猫与人类之间社会互动进行定量观察研究所得出的已知信息。仅纳入经过统计分析的数据结果；尚未经过检验的假设将如实声明。在某些情况下，观察数据与动物主人对动物性格和主人个性特征独立收集的主观评估相结合，以帮助解释数据。此外，还纳入了一些相关的实验研究。下文讨论的猫与人类之间的所有社会互动均假定这些动物在幼猫时期就已与人类进行社交，这是本综述的第一个主题。这种经过社交的猫表现出所谓的“对人类友好”，这反过来又影响人类对猫的依恋。用于与其他猫进行交流和互动的视觉和听觉行为元素能够被人类感知，并且猫在与人类互动时也会使用。猫与人类之间社会互动的发起以及发起者已被证明会影响互动回合的持续时间以及这种关系中的总互动时间。在所有被研究的猫与人的二元组中，猫与人类在顺应伙伴的互动“意愿”方面呈正相关。猫不会自发地偏好某一性别的人群或某一年龄段的人群，但这些人群中的人类对猫的行为方式不同，从而导致猫做出不同的反应。二元互动结构在男性和女性之间以及老年人和年轻人之间也存在差异。然而，猫——仅仅是它们的存在，当然还有它们的行为——会影响人类情绪，并且已证明人类情绪差异会影响猫的行为。最后，在与纯种猫和非纯种猫的互动之间以及年轻猫和老年猫之间发现了差异。
