Most of us just melt when we see cute babies, cute kittens and puppies, and even cute adult animals. It's just wired into us. In this TED-Ed lesson, we learn how that happened, how "cute" is defined, and why it affects us so much. It seems that some species have even leveraged the human tendency to love cuteness, and made themselves cuter. We even get an explanation for "cute aggression," that weird impulse to squeeze or bite something that strikes us as really cute. That's not universal. I always want to touch something I find cute, but squeezing or biting would never occur to me.
Sunday, January 08, 2023
The Science of Cuteness
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Aha, so it's "cute aggression," that makes them squeeze or bite me.
Here I thought it was reluctance.
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