SO CUTE IT HURTS GN VOL 01: Volume 1

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Taken together, these studies provide evidence that the concept of a baby schema extends to animals, and is not specific to human babies. Face-selective processing and the effect of pleasant and unpleasant emotional expressions on ERP correlates. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Overall, findings suggest that the RewP is a neural correlate of positive and negative reward stimuli (for a review, see Proudfit, 2015).

Prior to running mediation models, we explored the direct relationship between ERP components of interest (N200, RewP) and behavioral ratings of cute aggression.

The Kobayashi twins, Mego and Mitsuru, were named after historical figures, but only Mego has grown up with a taste for history. In the section related to things people say, participants were asked if they had ever said any of the following: “it’s so cute I want to pinch it!

For instance, more affection and playfulness were shown among mothers of cuter infants when compared to mothers with less cute infants ( Langlois et al. In terms of neural mechanisms, cute aggression is related to both reward processing and emotional salience. Many studies have shown that viewing images of babies with round faces and high foreheads were perceived as cute and elicited a higher response for caretaking when compared to babies with narrow faces and low foreheads ( Glocker et al. Bivariate correlations were conducted using the ERP components of interest and behavioral ratings of both cute aggression and dimorphous expression of positive emotions. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising.It is important to note that because the words “playful aggression” were utilized in the behavioral measures, participants were not entirely “blind” to the conceptual framework of the current study. With those button eyes, petite proportions and plenty of rich brown in its fur, this is no House Mouse, which would have seemed the obvious choice.

The eight images were of the following animal species: elephant, duck, pig, cat, monkey, dog, and rabbit. utilized a between subjects’ design in which participants were randomly assigned to either view “more cute” or “less cute” babies. To remove additional artifacts, we utilized a moving window peak-to-peak procedure in ERPlab ( Lopez-Calderon and Luck, 2014), with a 200 ms moving window, a 100 ms window step, and a 150 mV voltage threshold. The authors posited that evolutionarily, it would not have been adaptive to become incapacitated by positive feelings in response to a very cute baby who required caretaking. Note that because 3 correlations were run for each component, Bonferroni correction lowers the significance threshold to 0.For animals and babies separately, paired-sample t-tests were run on the following behavioral ratings: ratings of cuteness (appraisal), cute aggression, being overwhelmed, approach, and caretaking (Table 1).