Grrr, The best time to crush a cute puppy :) | Cute Aggression

SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/LukeTheOrange TWITTER: https://twitter.com/LukeTheOrange Sources: Dimorphous Expressions http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0956797614561044 When puppies get cute https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/08927936.2018.1455454?needAccess=true Unlocked Baby cuteness https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3260535/ Cute aggression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cute_aggression Nucleus accumbens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleus_accumbens#Function Cuteness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuteness Hi, my name is Luke. I make educational videos about Psychology and Neuroscience. They are all about why we as humans behave and think the way we do.

Babies have specific characteristics we often refer to as “cute” that evoke strong emotions in those around them. Surprisingly, these characteristics may evoke such strong emotions that our body tries to combat this emotional overflow by triggering the opposite response, leading to "feelings of aggression" towards cute things.