Cute Pictures Thread

  On 10/17/2013 at 2:25 PM, MadameChaos said:

"I FUCKING LOVE BROCCOLI"

Lol!

It's like the kitten's talking whilst the parent strolls along attentive and subtly proud.

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that reach around grab, at the end.

i can almost hear him noot noot like a pingu

  On 11/5/2013 at 11:40 PM, delet... said:

 

 

It's like the kitten's talking whilst the parent strolls along attentive and subtly proud.

 

These are really great, not like immediately cute but they get better as you sit and absorb the cuteness. Sort like lushess is to dub techno.

Some pure uncut cute for josh.

I think that my choice of pictures is my subconscious telling me something. (ala, go to bed douche).

ahhhh that first picture omg look at that first pictue.

i wanna corgy plush now. hah ;-] ..

  On 4/12/2013 at 11:52 PM, Fred McGriff said:

this is now the weird koala pictures thread

 

  On 11/10/2013 at 2:35 AM, Yegg said:

yo I think this from that horrible Adam Sandler movie Jack and Jill

  On 11/10/2013 at 2:35 AM, Yegg said:

this'll do it. ^^

  On 11/9/2013 at 2:39 AM, delet... said:

Some pure uncut cute for josh.

 

 

this is pretty damn cute

  On 11/12/2013 at 12:05 PM, MadameChaos said:

literal ducking and sidechaining

Is there some evolutionary purpose why baby animals are so cute to us?

  On 11/14/2013 at 11:33 AM, azatoth said:

Is there some evolutionary purpose why baby animals are so cute to us?

A study by Karraker (1990) suggested that "an adult's beliefs about the personality and expected behavior of an infant can influence the adult's interaction with the infant", and gave evidence that in this way "basic cuteness effects may occasionally be obscured in particular infants".^[9] Koyama (2006) said that an adult caregiver's perception of an infant's cuteness can motivate the amount of care and protection the caregiver provides, and the admiration demonstrated toward the infant, and concluded that "the adults' protective feeling for children appeared to be a more important criterion for the judgment of a boy's cuteness."^[8]

Melanie Glocker (2009) provided experimental evidence that infants' cuteness motivates caretaking in adults, even if they are not related to the infant.^[12] Glocker asked individuals to rate the level of cuteness of pictured infants and noted the motivation that these participants had to care for the infants. The research suggested that individuals' rating of the perceived cuteness of an infant corresponded to the level of motivation an individual had to care for this infant.^[12] Glocker and colleagues then used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), to demonstrate that baby faces with higher content of baby schema features, generated more activation in the nucleus accumbens, a small brain area central to motivation and reward.^[2] This work elucidated the neural mechanism through which baby schema (Kindchenschema) may motivate ("release") caretaking behavior. Furthermore, cute infants were more likely to be adopted and rated as more "likeable, friendly, healthy and competent" than infants who were less cute. There is an implication that baby schema response is crucial to human development because it lays the foundation for care giving and the relationship between child and caretaker.^[12]

A study by Konrad Lorenz in the early 1940s found that the shape of an infant's head positively correlated with adult caregiving and an increased perception of "cute". However a study by Thomas Alley found no such correlation and pointed out faulty procedures in that study. Alley's study found that cephalic head shape of an infant did induce a positive response from adults, and these children were considered to be more "cute". In his study, Alley had 25 undergraduate students rate line drawings of an infant's face. The same drawing was used each time, however the cephalic head shape was changed using a cardioidal transformation (a transformation that models cephalic growth in relation to ageing process) to adjust the perceived age; other features of the face were not changed. The study concluded that a large head shape increased perceived cuteness, which then elicited a positive response in adult caretaking. The study also noted that perceived cuteness was also dependant on other physical and behavioural characteristics of the child, including age.^[11]

I don't think human infants or kids are cute, just animals.