One thing the internet has shown us, it is that few people can resist looking at images of cute animals. Now new research has revealed that looking at cute images of baby animals doesn’t just ...

Cute features in babies and animals are more than just amusing—they trigger powerful evolutionary responses that help our species’ survival. Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippo that has become ...

A study at Hiroshima University in Japan suggests that the empathy brought on by looking at pictures of cute baby animals can actually ... and 13% faster). “Kawaii things not only make us ...

Here's a defense for when your boss catches you watching kitten videos on the job: New research shows looking at cute images of baby animals may ... where kawaii (Japanese for "cute") reigns.

But cute? Far from it. Enter the timeline cleanse. You may have seen them: social media photos, typically of adorable animals ... at kawaii images, like photos of puppies or kittens (or baby ...

Austrian ethologist Konrad Lorenz coined this behavior as "baby schema." (Read more why we find pandas and other animals so ... ugly-cute has its own name, kimo-kawaii, which roughly translates ...

Their paper, called the 'Power of Kawaii' ('kawaii' being the Japanese word for 'cute'), reports that ... Those who were shown images of the baby animals performed their tasks better than those ...

An emerging Japanese school of thought, which revolves around the study of Kawaii or the quality ... showed that staring at "cute" pictures of baby animals improved attention and concentration ...