The other day, I read an article from popular science (http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-01/science-says-adorable-animals-turn-us-aggressive) that looking at cute animal pictures causes human to react aggressively.
I'm surprised that this wasn't a known knowledge. I always had an urge to bite cute animals in their nose, but of course, I wouldn't really bite it. It is just that cuteness triggers some kind of insatiable reaction to squeeze and bite. It is also interesting that everyone has slightly different taste for cuteness. Of course, if you own the pet, you would love your pet the best, but for example, when I see a cat with extreme flat face, the cuteness factor goes lower for me. However that kind of face is very cute for my daughter. She loves animals with very flat face.
In this article, it says that "... seeing something cute, like a baby, drives us to want to take care of it. But we can't reach through a photograph to cuddle it, so we get frustrated -- and then aggressive.", but in my opinion, that is not exactly true. I do want to squeeze and bite real animals in front of me if they are cute. I don't think frustration of not being able to cuddle would cause the aggression, but the frustration comes when I can't actually do that to the animals. I might kiss the animal, but not really bite.
I am not sure what it is, but I guess this might be some type of natural reaction. I heard about Panda mother eats her new born baby, or sometimes some other animal mothers eat their offspring. I think that might be the aggression to cuteness gone bad.
Image by seasideshe on flickr
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