---
title: "Why watching cat videos is good for you"
description: "By watching cat videos viewers boost their energy and positive emotions, and decrease their negative feelings, according to a new study from the Indiana University Media School."
date: "2015-06-21"
modified: "2015-06-21"
authors:
  - name: "Jason Hudson"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jasonh"
url: "https://futurism.com/why-watching-cat-videos-is-good-for-you"
categories:
  - "Future Society"
---

# Why watching cat videos is good for you

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- Almost 7,000 people took part in the study published in the Computers in Human Behaviour journal, by filling out a survey about how cat videos affect their moods.
- The data showed that people felt less anxious, annoyed and sad after watching a cat-related online media. And in good news for procrastinators, the positive emotions sparked by watching cat videos outweighed any feelings of guilt over time wasting.
- The study also revealed that the most popular sites for watching cat videos emerged as Facebook, YouTube, Buzzfeed and arguably one of the original ‘funny cat’ websites, I Can Has Cheezburger.