New Insights Into the ‘It’s So Cute I Could Eat It’ Phenomenon
November 18, 2014
New York Magazine:
Last year, psychology at long last acknowledged the existence of “cute aggression,” that urge to nom-nom-nom a baby or a kitten or some other impossibly cute thing. This week, some of those same researchers expand on their earlier work with a new paper in Psychological Science that identifies why something so adorable would provoke such weird and slightly violent impulses. It seems this incongruous feeling is much like nervous laughter or tears of joy: It helps us regulate our emotions and bring us back down to a more even-keeled state after an unsustainable emotional extreme.
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