SO CUTE IT HURTS GN VOL 01: Volume 1

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Further, this effect was particularly pronounced for pet owners, which suggests that familiarity with common household pets (e. The current study participants were college students at a large university, rather than a random sample of the general population. The relationship between N200 and cute aggression when controlling for feeling overwhelmed was not significant. Though our pictures were designed to elicit emotion, it would be unsurprising if these types of images elicit significantly weaker levels of emotion compared to explicit or violent images.

Our results indicate that feelings of cute aggression relate to feeling overwhelmed and feelings of caretaking.

Note that because 3 correlations were run for each component, Bonferroni correction lowers the significance threshold to 0. Participants were recruited through the University of California, Riverside subject pool and from on-campus flyers. Offline, the EEG signals were re-referenced to the average of the two mastoid electrodes and filtered at 30 Hz and 0. This makes sense if one conceptualizes cute aggression as a way to handle overwhelming feelings which occur in response to extremely cute things. We also measured whether individuals’ self-reports about actions related to cute aggression were correlated with behavioral ratings of cute aggression in the current study.

These findings are interesting and provide information about how emotional processes occur over time, and how cute aggression may serve to regulate overwhelming emotions. Because we wanted to explore brain activity in response to images, we utilized a within-subjects design in which all subjects viewed images from all conditions. No significant effect of hemisphere was observed, and no significant interactions were found ( p > 0. Additionally, we tested three serial mediation models using PROCESS Model 6 ( Hayes, 2018): (1) To test whether the relationship between feelings of caretaking ( X) and expressions of cute aggression ( Y) would be serially mediated by appraisal ( M 1) and feelings of being overwhelmed ( M 2) and (2) To test whether the relationship between RewP amplitude ( X) and expressions of cute aggression ( Y) would be serially mediated by appraisal ( M 1) and feeling overwhelmed ( M 2). Significant correlations were observed between ratings of cute aggression and reports of ever having said, “it’s so cute I want to bite it!Therefore, mediation models in PROCESS for babies were run using N200 amplitude for babies (collapsed across “more” and “less” cute conditions, electrode position, and hemisphere) and did not utilize gender as a between subjects factor. Having the power to expose him, she decides not to as she realizes she has feelings for Mitsuru, begrudgingly falling in love with him.

Stimuli in the baby and adult animal conditions were the same as reported and validated by Aragón et al. Between each block, participants were asked to complete behavioral measures indicating how they felt about the pictures they saw.When the ANOVA was re-run with gender as a between subjects factor, no significant effects of gender were observed.

We found this idea fascinating and wanted to explore whether participants with children had significant differences in either behavioral or brain measures. For the N200, based on previous studies ( Kanske and Kotz, 2010, 2011), four regions of interests were defined: left anterior (FP1, F3, FC5), right anterior (FC6, F4, F8), left posterior: (CP5, P3, P7, O1) and right posterior (O2, P4, P8, CP6). It was adapted into an original video animation, included in volume 3 limited edition of the series. Shino is the half-sister to both Aoi and Azusa; she and Azusa share fathers while both her and Aoi have the same mother.and he gradually falls in love with Mego during her and Mitsuru's identity exchange, leading Aoi to question his sexuality due to him being unaware of Mego's true gender. Finally, we found that RewP amplitude and cute aggression was serially mediated by feelings of caretaking and feeling overwhelmed. After vowing to protect Shino, Mitsuru unintentionally wages an unfriendly rivalry with her, resulting in Azusa using her power to torture Mitsuru and anyone who sides with him. For example, in the case of cute animals, these findings suggest that cute aggression is not simply correlated with caretaking—but is mediated by how cute individuals find animals, and how overwhelmed they feel.