Some people love their cats for the chaos they create, even if they're showing boldness, meanness or disinhibition.
looked at psychopathic traits in domestic cats, namely boldness, meanness and disinhibition. The researchers defined disinhibition as “reduced behavioral restraint” and “impaired regulation of affect and urges.” Humans may find this behavior annoying in other humans, but not in domestic cats.
The research found that cat owners liked when cats showed more disinhibition, like jumping around without a care in the world, and perhaps somewhat surprisingly, unfriendliness towards other pets. Cat owners did not like all psychopathic traits in cats. For example, these studies showed that boldness and meanness predicted a negative relationship between a human and their cat. However, how cat owners perceived their cats’ behavior, like swatting, could also be subjective.
For example, “it would not be surprising if the cat's weird behaviors were considered part of the cat's behavioral repertoire,” for people with “remote associations” with their cats, says Claire Ricci-Bonot, a postdoctoral research fellow at University of Lincoln and one of the study authors.
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