Thank you

Thanks again to everyone for your donations, and helping us reach our funding goal for our project, we truly appreciate your generosity! We are extremely eager to begin testing, and will start recruiting cats to participate once the renovations in our testing suite are completed. We are also pleased to announce that we have recently secured approval from the university's IACUC board to conduct the experiment.

This project offers an exciting opportunity to explore whether domestic cats are capable of forming reputation judgments about humans. We are curious whether domestic cats will be able to attribute stable character assessments to humans based on their direct interactions with friendly and aggressive experimenters and/or through socially eavesdropping on the interactions of a fellow cat with the experimenters. Dogs and chimpanzees have already proven capable of forming reputation judgments about humans in some contexts, yet there have not been any investigations into the ability of less social species, such as domestic cats, to do the same.