Cats Recognize Emotion. Understanding the emotions of your cat. Recent research on feline recognition of emotion has found that cats can recognize human gestures and expressions, and they behave differently to these emotions.

Absolutely cats can sense our mood. In the light of this, the aim of the present work was to investigate cats’ ability to recognize conspecific and human emotions. However, it may be impossible to examine emotion from a purely scientific viewpoint, and some researchers acknowledge that we may need to anthropomorphize (attribute human traits) to some extent.