Dimorphous expression refers to someone experiencing a strong emotion of one type (e.g., happy or sad) but expressing the opposite emotion. Findings indicated that for infantile babies (e.g., images that had been altered to have large eyes and chubby cheeks Sherman et al., 2013) and baby animals, there was a relationship between being overwhelmed by positive feelings and the expression of cute aggression ( Aragón et al., 2015).Ĭute aggression has been discussed as an example of dimorphous expression of emotions.
The authors investigated cute aggression using pictures of baby humans and animals via an online survey. (2015) initially operationalized the phenomenon of “cute aggression” through individual self-reports while viewing cute stimuli. In terms of neural mechanisms, cute aggression is related to both reward processing and emotional salience.Ĭute aggression is defined as the urge some people get to squeeze, crush, or bite cute things, albeit without any desire to cause harm. Our results indicate that feelings of cute aggression relate to feeling overwhelmed and feelings of caretaking.
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For cute animals, there was significant serial mediation for RewP amplitude through caretaking, to feeling overwhelmed, to cute aggression, and RewP amplitude through appraisal, to feeling overwhelmed, to cute aggression. For cute animals, the relationship between N200 amplitude and cute aggression was significantly mediated by feeling overwhelmed. For both animals and babies, the relationship between appraisal and cute aggression was significantly mediated by feeling overwhelmed. Mediation Models: Using PROCESS ( Hayes, 2018), mediation models were run. RewP amplitude was used in mediation models. A significant correlation was observed between RewP amplitude to cute animals and ratings of cute aggression toward cute animals. RewP: For animals and babies separately, we subtracted the less cute condition from the more cute condition. A significant correlation between N200 amplitude and the tendency to express positive emotions in a dimorphous manner (e.g., crying when happy) was observed. N200: A significant effect of “cuteness” was observed for animals such that a larger N200 was elicited after more versus less cute animals. There were significant correlations between participants’ self-report of behaviors related to cute aggression and ratings of cute aggression in the current study. On measures of cute aggression, feeling overwhelmed by positive emotions, approachability, appraisal of cuteness, and feelings of caretaking, participants rated more cute animals significantly higher than less cute animals. Participants aged 18–40 years ( n = 54) saw four sets of images: cute babies, less cute babies, cute (baby) animals, and less cute (adult) animals. The urge people get to squeeze or bite cute things, albeit without desire to cause harm, is known as “cute aggression.” Using electrophysiology (ERP), we measured components related to emotional salience and reward processing.
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