The Science of “Cuteness” 👶🏻

Morning cuties!

Why are things… cute?

Things like:

Puppies:

Kittens:

and Babies:

They just make you wanna squidge em right?

What is that feeling?

What exactly IS “cuteness?”

For that, we gotta figure out EXACTLY what makes something “cute”.

Luckily, we don’t have to.

Some guy already did it in 1943.

How?

Well, first he found a bunch of images of animals.

Some cute, some not so cute.

Then he would show these images to people in order to figure out what KEY features people find cute.

What he found was VERY interesting…

He found that people would always select the features linked with the baby form of that animal!

Things like:

Plump cheeks:

Large eyes:

and Short limbs:

Basically, for humans, cuteness is anything that makes them look “baby like”.

The scientist dude found that when the study participants saw images containing MORE features associated with babies, they would actually tend to look at them longer and more often…

As well as this, the photos also appeared to stimulate regions of the brain linked with emotion and reward!

Humans are literally hard-wired to find things cute!

But WHY?

Why do we love cute things SOOOOO much?

Well, the theory goes something like this:

Cute things make us want to care for them.

Huh?

Think about it, human babies on their own are… pretty helpless.

If they are left for more than 5 minutes, they WILL find a way to kill themselves.

Therefore, evolution has made sure we actually want to care for them.

So it made them cute!

I mean… ALL those features linked to cuteness are ALSO found in human babies too!

So really, when you see something cute, its your brain saying:

Lol, thanks evolution!

Stay Cute,
Reece, Henry & Dylan 🌈

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