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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~

14 posted on 12/31/2018 1:43:08 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

I avoid Christmas music of any sort as much as possible. As a result, I only hear them in department stores. I still have a good Christmas.


27 posted on 12/31/2018 2:15:41 PM PST by Redcitizen (I don't always lurk, but when I do, Freerepublic.)
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