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When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive
NPR ^
| 12/31/2018
| Jon Hamilton
Posted on 12/31/2018 1:17:13 PM PST by BenLurkin
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Just when you thought academia couldn't sink any lower....
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posted on
12/31/2018 1:17:13 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
‘I want to crush it’ or ‘I want to squeeze it until pops’ or ‘I want to punch it,’ “ says Katherine Stavropoulos, a psychologist in the Graduate School of Education...
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posted on
12/31/2018 1:18:58 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Rationale for the creation of the Thought Police
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posted on
12/31/2018 1:25:59 PM PST
by
crazyhorse691
(Who knew that an elected official is a demi-god waiting to happen?)
To: BenLurkin
All the more reason to just ignore them.
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posted on
12/31/2018 1:27:12 PM PST
by
Catmom
(We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.r)
To: kaehurowing
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posted on
12/31/2018 1:29:33 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
12/31/2018 1:30:21 PM PST
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Ruth Bader Ginsburg doctor is a taxidermist.)
To: BenLurkin
These people should just lay back and listen to Boy George’s “Do you really want to hurt me?”
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posted on
12/31/2018 1:33:38 PM PST
by
glorgau
To: Catmom
I guess, but it’s kind of hard to ignore when things like this calls for massive de-funding of academia.
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posted on
12/31/2018 1:35:38 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
I don't buy it.
I only think like that when I know I am being manipulated.
They are not going deep enough.
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posted on
12/31/2018 1:36:46 PM PST
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
To: BenLurkin
Every cat I have ever had, had this lol.
Too much happy, gotta bite something.
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posted on
12/31/2018 1:37:25 PM PST
by
thesearethetimes...
(Had I brought Christ with me, the outcome would have been different. Dr.Eric Cunningham)
To: BenLurkin
From the piece...
But Stavropoulos, a cute aggressor herself, wanted to know what it looked like in the brain. Perhaps others recall from their days at the big U that so many of the way-whacked-out-and-not-always-lucid among us were phych majors. (Not all, of course, and some truly looney tune folks had other majors).
Perhaps the Graduate School at UCR can study this widely-held observation of a significant proportion of psychology majors being "not right".
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posted on
12/31/2018 1:39:04 PM PST
by
Seaplaner
(Never give in-never, never,never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. Winston Churchill)
To: Seaplaner
Perhaps the Graduate School at UCR can study this widely-held observation of a significant proportion of psychology majors being "not right". Bingo!
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posted on
12/31/2018 1:40:30 PM PST
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
The holiday season is all about cute. You've got those ads with adorable children and those movies about baby animals with big eyes.But when people encounter too much cuteness, the result can be something scientists call "cute aggression."
People "just have this flash of thinking: 'I want to crush it' or 'I want to squeeze it until pops' or 'I want to punch it,' " says Katherine Stavropoulos, a psychologist in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Riverside.
I get this way with Christmas music. If I heard 'Last Christmas' just one more time - I likely would have been locked away for assault and battery.
"All I want for Christmas is YOOOUUUUU!!!"
~SNAPPING NECK~
To: thesearethetimes...
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posted on
12/31/2018 1:45:01 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Seaplaner
My father told me ages ago all the psych types he worked with in mental wards struck him as being in the field to diagnose what was wrong with themselves.
To: BenLurkin
Cute = A Subaru commercial with Dogs.
Dumb = A Lincoln Navigator commercial with a Dog. (or Mathew McConaughey)
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posted on
12/31/2018 1:48:05 PM PST
by
Kickass Conservative
(Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
To: BenLurkin
I call them love nips. After extended excellent pets, a small nip somewhere, or in the big Siamese's case, a hard chomp.
We train the grab and bite out of them much as possible.
To: BenLurkin
Explains why I always wanted to crush Snuggles the Bear.
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posted on
12/31/2018 1:49:15 PM PST
by
MNDude
(WWG1WGAalso)
To: doorgunner69
My Mother used to say, “some people are so smart, they’re stupid”. That explains Washington D.C. and Sacramento, CA.
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posted on
12/31/2018 1:49:36 PM PST
by
Kickass Conservative
(Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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