A closer look
Seeing an incredibly adorable puppy often triggers a bizarre psychological urge to aggressively squeeze bite or crush it, which is actually your brain's clumsy way of regulating overwhelming positive emotions through a phenomenon called cuteness aggression; when you are confronted with too much pure joy your neurological system short-circuits and violently throws a negative emotion into the mix just to bring you back to a stable functional baseline, acting exactly like a pressure release valve that prevents you from becoming so completely incapacitated by a picture of a baby panda that you forget to eat or go to work, meaning that violently clenching your jaw and wanting to punch a wall when looking at kittens does not mean you are a secret serial killer but just indicates your emotional thermostat is wildly overreacting to the sheer concept of fluff






