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"Guys, meet Lady Clicquot (a.k.a., The Biscuit). She is a six-pound, toothless Pomeranian who is the love of Glamour&amp;#x27;s very own Kat Thomsen. Don&amp;#x27;t you just want to eat this sweet little up? We&amp;#x27;ve all said that before, right? We&amp;#x27;ve seen a cute baby, kitten, or puppy, and we have this unexplained desire to eat it up. And now science is telling us why (yay, science!). In a new study presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, researchers found that our seemingly aggressive response to cuteness is actually very normal (and that we don&amp;#x27;t, obviously, actually want to consume a cute ball of fur). The researchers asked 109 participants to look at pictures of cute (example: fluffy puppy), funny (example: dog with flappy jowls), or neutral animals (example: dog looking serious). The participants rated the pictures on cuteness and funniness, but also on how much they felt the pictures made them lose control--like, feeling like they had to squeeze something, or how they might feel that they just couldn&amp;#x27;t handle it. The cuter the pup, the more desire to squeeze. And, in the study, they did actually get the chance to squeeze--not animals, but bubble wrap. The researchers gave participants sheets of bubble wrap. The more often the participants viewed cute photos, the more bubbles they popped. The study&amp;#x27;s authors say that seeing a cute puppy triggers our desire to care for the animal, but since it&amp;#x27;s just a picture, or we might not be able to care for the a real-life pup as much as we want, this urge may be frustrated, leading to expressions of aggression. What do you think? Here&amp;#x27;s Lady again to help you mull it over: And more on cute animals and your health: * Why you&amp;#x27;re making your dog yawn * Why some docs prescribe pups instead of Prozac * This babies and pets post is guaranteed to de-stress Photos: Kat Thomsen"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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