…do fuck off!
Researchers presenting findings to the Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference claim to have found a link between cuteness and aggressive tendencies.
LiveScience, who reported from the event earlier this month say researchers have labelled the phenomenon “cute aggression”.
Two graduate psychology students at Yale University, Rebecca Dyer and Oriana Aragon, led the research into reactions to cute images.
They claim to have found a connection between pictures of cute animals and a desire to squish or squeeze them.
The researchers found that people watching a slideshow of cute pictures popped more bubbles on a sheet of bubble wrap than those watching funny or neutral pictures.
That’s right, popping bubble wrap means you want to crush cute kitties. Jeebus!
Filed under ‘Psychology is not a science’ and immediately forgotten about.
That this was funded is bad enough, that it was subsequently published is simply embarrassing (for them and any future children they may have).