Cute aggression is when someone acts in a mock physically aggressive way in reaction to something adorable. It is often seen when people say something is "so cute [they] could squish it." It isn't ...

Do you have a face so cute that people want to pinch your cheeks? Does the sight of a baby piglet snuggling up to a newborn baby make you want to kick down a door and run away screaming? Have you ever ...

When my youngest sister was a baby, I recall telling my mom through gritted teeth: “Ugh, she’s so cute, I can’t stand it. I just want to squeeze her!” Years later, I still feel this overwhelming pull ...

Cute kittens, chubby baby cheeks and elderly people eating ice cream — these things elicit a primal response from us. Sighs of "Awww!" and gushes of gooey compliments proceed after coming in contact ...

Cute kittens, chubby baby cheeks and elderly people eating ice cream — these things elicit a primal response from us. Sighs of "Awww!" and gushes of gooey compliments proceed after coming in contact ...

Katherine Stavropoulos, a psychologist from the University of California, Riverside who published a study about the phenomenon, said that cute aggression can be baffling and embarrassing to those who ...

A romantic spark this Valentine's Day could lead to playful bites of a partner, tears of joy at the sight of an engagement ring or the birth of a baby who's so cute you just want to pinch him. Don't ...

Have you ever felt so overwhelmed by kitten's cuteness that you've been hit with an urge to squish it out of love? Then you've experienced cute aggression: a phenomenon whose mechanisms scientists ...