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Feeling a bit squee-mish?
Cute aggression is the feeling you get when something is so cute you can't help but want to squeeze it.
It was given that name by researchers at Yale University who investigated the phenomenon and presented their findings at a conference last year. They showed participants photos of cute animals (and "funny" and "neutral" animal pictures) and gave them some bubble wrap to hold. You can probably guess what happened next.
People popped 120 bubbles on average for cute pictures, versus 100 for neutral and 80 for funny.
"Rather the response could be protective, or it could be the brain's way of tamping down or venting extreme feelings of giddiness and happiness," researcher Oriana Aragon told Scientific American.
*I mean just look at this baby turtle.