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A study out of Japan showed that watching cat videos “can actually improve a person’s productivity at work.”
The idea, is that their tiny faces, doing supercute things, trigger a care-giving impulse in humans, much like seeing babies. This encourages friendliness and can even boost productivity in tasks that require focus…
The researchers from Hiroshima University, had about 50 college students perform tasks that required concentration, like removing tiny items from a hole using Tweezers. Some of them were given cute animal pictures to view before their task… The students shown the cute animal pictures performed better.
They tried pictures of pleasant foods and a whole bunch of other stuff but nothing was a match for cute animals.
“Kawaii [cute] things not only make us happier, but also affect our behavior, ” lead researcher and cognitive psychologist Hiroshi Nittono wrote in the team’s research paper. “This study shows that viewing cute things improves subsequent performance in tasks that require behavioral carefulness, possibly by narrowing the breadth of attentional focus.” (CNBC)
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