The fact that cats are hermits are well known. They can accept the love of their owner, but do not often give it. However, psychologist Karen McComb revealed a simple trick that will help you establish communication with your fluffy favorite.

The author of the study claims that you just need to smile more. Not humanly, showing his teeth, but in a whimper, squinting his eyes and slowly blinking, writes Science Alert.

Observing the interaction between the cat and the person, scientists confirmed that it is such an expression on the face that makes cats, as acquaintances, not - approach people and be more susceptible to them.

" This is what many cat owners have already suspected, so it is very interesting to find evidence of this, ”says the scientist.

If you spent some time with cats, you probably saw their facial expressions partially closed eyes, accompanied by slow clip-this usually happens when the cat is relaxed and satisfied. It looks like eyes narrow during a smile. Expression is interpreted as a kind of cat smile. According to researchers, people can copy this expression to inform the cats that they are friendly and open to interaction. The team of psychologists developed two experiments to determine whether cats lead in differently relatively slowly blinking people.

In the first experiment, the hosts slowly blinked at 21 cats from 14 different households. After the cat got used to it and felt comfortable in one place in the home environment, the hosts were asked to sit at a distance of about 1 meter from it and slowly blink when the cat looked at them. The cameras recorded the face of the owner and the cat, and the results were compared with how cats blink without interaction with a person. The results showed that cats are more likely to blink people slowly after people slowly blink on them, compared to a situation where they do not interact with them. The second experiment was attended by 24 cats from eight different households. This time, not the owners blinked, but the researchers who had previously had any contact with the cats. To control the cats reacted to the conditions of "

Researchers did the same process of slow blinking as in the first experiment, adding an elongated hand to it towards the cat.

They found that cats not only blinked more often in response, but also more often approached the human hand after he blinked.

“This is the first study showing the role of slow blinking in the communication of a cat and a person,” McCub said and added that you can always conduct a similar experiment with your home cat, or with cats that you met on the street. This is a great way to strengthen your relationship with cats. Try to narrow your eyes, looking at them, like in a relaxed smile, and then close your eyes for a couple of seconds.

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