Cute Aggression?

[ManaMinori 4,149]

source: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/12/31/679832549/when-too-cute-is-too-much-the-brain-can-get-aggressive

source: https://clarkrelationshiplab.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Psychological Science-2015-Aragón-259-73.pdf

 

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Extremely positive experiences, and positive appraisals thereof, produce intense positive emotions that often generate

both positive expressions (e.g., smiles) and expressions normatively reserved for negative emotions (e.g., tears). We

developed a definition of these dimorphous expressions and tested the proposal that their function is to regulate

emotions. We showed that individuals who express emotions in this dimorphous manner do so as a general response

across a variety of emotionally provoking situations, which suggests that these expressions are responses to intense

positive emotion rather than unique to one particular situation. We used cute stimuli (an elicitor of positive emotion) to

demonstrate both the existence of these dimorphous expressions and to provide preliminary evidence of their function

as regulators of emotion

I have never heard of this, but it's fascinating. Apparently, too much cute intake can be harmful to us.

Has anyone ever seen signs of "cute aggression" in the FiM fandom?

Edited January 3, 2019 by Nightmare Muffin

[They call me Loyalty 1,954]

It's not necessarily harmful as along as one can understand reality beyond the bias of positive and negative polarity.

The array of complexity isn't inherently good or bad. Polarity is added by the obscured perception.

[qwerE 97]

I've never had that happen to me before. It seems like an interesting idea, but I doubt too much cuteness can ever be harmful.

[TBD 17,274]

I don't know about you but I do get this strange ache in the chest every time I'm around with children and interacting with them. They're so darn precious. And I'd sometime joked about kidnapping them. But nothing serious though, just as long you don't mean it then it's harmless. 

Edited January 6, 2019 by TBD

[Lucky Bolt 35,246]

I don’t know, I mean, whenever I see something super cute, this is always my reaction: 

And then....

 

 

Not really considered aggressive I guess, but.

Edited April 15, 2019 by Lucky Bolt