You’ve probably heard the term “cute aggression” thrown around over the years. It describes the odd but seemingly common compulsion to smoosh, bite, or pinch—but not hurt—adorable things like babies ...

When my youngest sister was a baby, I recall telling my mom through gritted teeth: “Ugh, she’s so cute, I can’t stand it. I just want to squeeze her!” Years later, I still feel this overwhelming pull ...

Cute aggression is when someone acts in a mock physically aggressive way in reaction to something adorable. It is often seen when people say something is "so cute [they] could squish it." It isn't ...

Have you ever felt so overwhelmed by kitten's cuteness that you've been hit with an urge to squish it out of love? Then you've experienced cute aggression: a phenomenon whose mechanisms scientists ...

A study on ‘cute aggression’-the urge to squeeze a puppy or pinch a baby’s cheeks suggested that the activity might be related to the brain’s reward system, which deals with motivation, feelings of ...

Katherine Stavropoulos, a psychologist from the University of California, Riverside who published a study about the phenomenon, said that cute aggression can be baffling and embarrassing to those who ...

Do you have a face so cute that people want to pinch your cheeks? Does the sight of a baby piglet snuggling up to a newborn baby make you want to kick down a door and run away screaming? Have you ever ...