Enjoy watching clips with Grumpy cat or Colonel Meow? Or do you feel “positive” just looking at Snoopy the Cat? Then don’t stop browsing YouTube for more adorable felines, as a recent study shows these videos are a form of low-cost pet therapy.
At least 7,000 cat-lovers were questioned by assistant professor Jessica Gall Myrick from Indiana University Media School for her study entitled, “Emotion regulation, procrastination, and watching cat videos online: Who watches Internet cats, why, and to what effect?”
Myrick tested the motivations of participants “for consuming cat-related content,” be it for killing time or for treating a depression.
The study has been posted on ScienceDirect.com, a website for scientific, technical, and medical research. It is to be published in Computers in Human Behavior journal in November.
“Some people may think watching online cat videos isn’t a serious enough topic for academic research, but the fact is that it’s one of the most popular uses of the Internet today,” Myrick said. More + videos...
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At least 7,000 cat-lovers were questioned by assistant professor Jessica Gall Myrick from Indiana University Media School for her study entitled, “Emotion regulation, procrastination, and watching cat videos online: Who watches Internet cats, why, and to what effect?”
Myrick tested the motivations of participants “for consuming cat-related content,” be it for killing time or for treating a depression.
The study has been posted on ScienceDirect.com, a website for scientific, technical, and medical research. It is to be published in Computers in Human Behavior journal in November.
“Some people may think watching online cat videos isn’t a serious enough topic for academic research, but the fact is that it’s one of the most popular uses of the Internet today,” Myrick said. More + videos...
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