WHY?? Are we secretly perverts?
Two psychology grad students from Yale tried to find the answers of why human beings have this urge to squeeze cute things. They had 109 respondents look at cute animals pictures that are grouped into Cute, Funny or Neutral. The results showed very clearly that the cuter the animals, the more aggressive their responses.
But the researchers went on to part 2. They wanted to make sure that people act on the aggression too, rather than just expressing it. They brought 90 respondents into a lab and gave them bubble wraps. Again, 3 categories of animals were shown to them - Cute, Funny or Neutral. Those in the Funny group popped 80 bubbles on average. Those in the Neutral group popped about 100 bubbles and those in the Cute group...
POPPED 120 BUBBLES.
So the main story is that the researchers managed to verify that the cuter something (or someone) is, the more we exercise "Cute Aggression" (also a word which the researchers came up with for the English language).
There are no definite results on why we have cute aggression from the findings. However, possible theories suggested simply that, when it is too much of something good, we tend to overdo and portray exaggeratedly, in a positive emotion in a negative way, like crying when we are too happy or touched.
For example, think "It's so adorable, it drives me crazy!" or "Its so fluffy, I'm gonna die!"
Below, explore your inner cute aggression with the pictures =D
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