[BenLurkin]

Just when you thought academia couldn't sink any lower....

[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...

[kaehurowing]

Graphic example of what happens:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0WnZyxp_Wo

It will be too late when those cute things turn on you and crush you! You must act first!!

[crazyhorse691]

Rationale for the creation of the Thought Police

[Catmom]

All the more reason to just ignore them.

[gov_bean_ counter]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jPdHaNr0OAY

Oldie but goodie.

[right way right]

I don't buy it.
I only think like that when I know I am being manipulated.
They are not going deep enough.

[thesearethetimes...]

Every cat I have ever had, had this lol.
Too much happy, gotta bite something.

[Seaplaner]

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".

[Responsibility2nd]

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~

[Kickass Conservative]

Cute = A Subaru commercial with Dogs.

Dumb = A Lincoln Navigator commercial with a Dog. (or Mathew McConaughey)

[MNDude]

Explains why I always wanted to crush Snuggles the Bear.

[refreshed]

Not normal. Evil.

[doorgunner69]

I dunno, she looks a bit on the bull dyke side. Known to be an aggressive disorder.

[Robert DeLong]

They are obviously talking about the reactions of liberals. So color me not surprised at all.

[Raycpa]

The author of ghost busters was ahead of his time.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Leftists destroy everything that is good and pure.

[RedMonqey]

Why do I keep getting images of "Big Bang Theory's Amy Farafowler”(sp?) torturing cute lab animals?

[wildcard_redneck]

IMHO aggression towards cute things is a holdover response from man’s mammalian predatory past. Predators are naturally keyed in to attack the young of other animals because they are very vulnerable compared to the adult prey. In calving season predators get fat on fawns, calves
, etc. Cute is delicious and easy to catch.

[EdnaMode]

Fake news!

[Intolerant in NJ]

But when people encounter too much cuteness, the result can be something scientists call "cute aggression."...hmmm - this may explain why I had a sudden urge to throw stones at my TV when Elizabeth Warren was on the news a few minutes ago.....