Why do we always want to pinch the baby's cheek, rub the dog's head?

Meet a plump baby or a lovely puppy, most of us can't help pinching her cheeks and rubbing her small dog's head. Why?

Previously, many scientists used to find it difficult to explain this emotional phenomenon. It often appears when we stand in front of something, a phenomenon or a certain object with beauty and cuteness. For example, always want to smell and pinch a pretty baby with chubby cheeks, inhale the scent of a beautiful flower, cuddle a puppy.

At that time, emotions seemed to rise higher, the heart beat faster, creating an almost overly emotional state. This state makes us almost "unable to stop the action" to touch that object.

Currently, scientists have identified that that state is simply the way that the brain "calms" our emotions.

That state is simply the way the brain "calms" our emotions.(Photo: stock.adobe.com).

After analyzing the research of Yale University scientists on the term " cute aggression" in 2015, Katherine Stavropoulos, professor of special education at the University of California (US wonders if there is a Any nerve is responsible for this emotion or not.

According to Stavropoulos, this activity may be related to the reward mechanism of the brain, involving "want" feelings, emotional systems or emotional processing.

Based on the observations of neurological activity in some of the participants, Professor Stavropoulos found direct evidence of the association of reward and emotional mechanisms of the brain towards phenomena "causing cute. "

"Basically, those who experience this feeling will want to touch the object that gives that feeling without harming the opponent. That's how the brain takes us back to our original normal emotions." , Katherine Stavropoulos said.

Stavropoulos believes that this phenomenon is like a means of showing the ability to care for things that we find "cute".

In the future, Stavropoulos hopes to use the electrophysiological exploration method to study the neurological basis of this phenomenon in many different groups of people. Such as mothers who suffer, people with autism spectrum disorders, and those without babies or pets.