00:04you've probably heard grandma say you're so cute i could eat you up or maybe you've seen an adorable
00:09puppy and had the urge to squeeze it scientists say too much cuteness can cause what's known as
00:15cute aggression a university of california study inspired by previous yale research suggests it
00:22doesn't mean you want to cause harm it seems to be an involuntary response for being overwhelmed
00:28by positive emotions researchers analyzed the brain's electrical activity in 54 adults as they
00:34looked at images of animals and people of varying cute levels cuteness overload was associated with
00:40more activity in parts of the brain involving emotion and our reward system so the brain may
00:45form aggressive thoughts to balance out the overwhelmingly positive feelings the findings
00:50were published in the journal frontiers in behavioral neuroscience
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