Folks on TikTok have been posting videos using the “Not Mr. Darcy, But” meme to show viewers the small things in life that go ...
A couple years back, a team of research psychologists ID’d a phenomenon called “cute aggression,” wherein the sight of something cute (an infant, a puppy) paradoxically yields statements like ‘I just ...
One thing the internet has shown us, it is that few people can resist looking at images of cute animals. Now new research has revealed that looking at cute images of baby animals doesn’t just make you ...
From chubby puppies to loveable robots, ‘cuteness’ has us all melting in its sticky little hands. But why did it gain such global traction – and does it have a dark side? Every day I rise early, like ...
What is cute, or kawaii, to use the almost synonymous Japanese term? In 1943, an Austrian zoologist named Konrad Lorenz proposed that our perception of cuteness is based on certain physical ...