科学家揭示为什么看到可爱的东西你会想去捏一捏

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为什么看到可爱的东西总忍不住要去捏一捏呢？耶鲁大学的科学家们可能已经找到了原因，他们将这种现象描述为“可爱侵略性”。

Scientists may have found a reason why you can’t stop pinching the cheeks of adorable babies. Researchers at Yale University describe this phenomenon as “cute aggression”. They studied the brains of 52 participants and found that people have a strong reaction to pets and humans with more infantile features.

科学家们可能已经找到了为什么你会忍不住捏可爱宝宝的脸颊的原因。耶鲁大学的研究人员将这种现象描述为“可爱侵略性”。他们研究了52名参与者的大脑，发现人们对宠物和有更多婴儿特征的人类反应强烈。

The Yale researchers initially found that people reported feeling cute aggression more in response to baby animals versus adult animals. But even beyond that, people reported feeling cute aggression more in response to pictures of human babies that had been digitally enhanced to appear more infantile, and therefore “more cute”, by enlarging features like their eyes, cheeks, and foreheads.

耶鲁大学的研究人员最初发现，与成年动物相比，人们对幼小动物的可爱侵略性更强烈。但除此之外，当人们看到经过数码强化处理，更婴儿化的婴儿照片时，他们的可爱侵略感也更强烈。这些照片通过放大他们的眼睛、脸颊和额头等面部特征显得更“可爱”。

The study also saw that respondents felt more overwhelmed and wanted to take care of cute baby animals over less cute adult animals. Cute aggression may serve as a tempering mechanism that allows us to function and actually take care of something we might first perceive as overwhelmingly cute.

该研究还发现，与不太可爱的成年动物相比，被调查者会不可抑制地更想照顾可爱的小动物。可爱攻击性可以作为一种调节机制，让我们能够正常生活，并真正照顾那些我们一开始觉得超级可爱的东西。