Elizabeth Johnson, a doctoral student, Arianna Portillo, an undergrad, Nikki Bennett, a graduate student, and Peter Gray (all Anthropology) published "Exploring women's oxytocin responses to interactions with their pet cats."

While similar research has investigated oxytocin responses of parents to babies or of people to interactions with dogs, this is the first study testing whether women's oxytocin levels change when interacting with their own pet cat. This study is published in PeerJ.