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Do you have a face so cute that people want to pinch your cheeks? Does the sight of a baby piglet snuggling up to a newborn baby make you want to kick down a door and run away screaming?
What, in short, is this cuteness thing all about? It turns out that the science of cute is far more interesting than you’d think. Cuteness is evolution’s devious way of getting you to look ...
Participants seem to enjoy aggressive acts but also feel overwhelmed — they "can't even" deal with cute stimuli. Baby cosplaying as Yoda at Comic Con Liverpool. Does Disney follow the science?
But what is it about these young animals that make our hearts melt? How It Works magazine has studied the science behind cute animal faces and revealed their allure is down to our evolutionary ...
The majority of reactions, reports Popular Science, fell into the phenomenon of ‘cute aggression’. The researchers reasoned that the high-positive affect of the cute stimulus was just so ...
There's even a name for this: Neotony. Follow TI: On Facebook More from Science Why do we feel the need to care for things that are cute, like puppies and kittens? Austrian biologist Konrad Lorenz ...
Researchers working in Bolivia recently discovered four new species of tuco-tuco, a small, gopher-like rodent named for its distinct vocalizations. Previously, scientists thought only eight ...