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12. There's a reason we want to squeeze cute things.

12. There's a reason we want to squeeze cute things.

"It's so cute, I just was to smoosh it until it pops!" That's called cuteness aggression, and people who feel it don't really want to crush that adorable puppy. Research published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience found that when we're feeling overwhelmed by positive emotions—like we do when looking at an impossibly cute baby animal—a little bit of aggression helps us balance out that high.

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