{"id":213923,"date":"2025-05-13T18:03:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T23:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/scientists-developed-a-questionnaire-to-find-out-if-your-cat-is-a-psychopath"},"modified":"2025-05-13T18:03:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T23:03:49","slug":"scientists-developed-a-questionnaire-to-find-out-if-your-cat-is-a-psychopath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/scientists-developed-a-questionnaire-to-find-out-if-your-cat-is-a-psychopath","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Developed a Questionnaire to Find Out if Your Cat Is a Psychopath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-developed-a-questionnaire-to-find-out-if-your-cat-is-a-psychopath.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What, exactly, is your cat thinking? Scientists came up with a questionnaire in 2021 that might give you some idea of where your feline friend fits on what\u2019s known as the triarchic model of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psychopathy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">psychopathy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The model measures levels of boldness, meanness, and disinhibition in order to assess overall psychopathic tendencies. Ordinarily, the test is for human beings, of course, but here it\u2019s being applied to cats.<\/p>\n<p>Having completed the survey \u2013 which you can <a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/ysb9z\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">find online<\/a> \u2013 you\u2019ll be given what\u2019s called a CAT-Tri+ measure for your pet\u2019s level of psychopathy. The team is hoping that knowing this score can improve human and cat relationships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What, exactly, is your cat thinking? Scientists came up with a questionnaire in 2021 that might give you some idea of where your feline friend fits on what\u2019s known as the triarchic model of psychopathy. The model measures levels of boldness, meanness, and disinhibition in order to assess overall psychopathic tendencies. Ordinarily, the test is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}