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Routine Checkup: So Cute You Wanna Crush It — Cute Aggression

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8524 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever look at your pet sleeping with its tongue sticking out and think "you're so cute I want to stomp on you"? Or do you ever see a baby and think "Look at its little fingers! They are so small and cute, I want to bite them off!" Or "Look at this baby chinchilla! I want to squeeze it until it's eyes pop out!"? Well if you said yes, then you, my friend, have what is referred to as Cute Aggression! This week we speak with Dr. Katherine — Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and a licensed clinical psychologist — all about the bizarre phenomenon of cute aggression and what she learned by conducting the first neuroscientific study of cute aggression.

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0:00.0

I'm Lisa Yuso, a digital producer at Ideas, the podcast that likes to feed your curiosity.

0:07.8

I ask my colleagues why they think you should listen.

0:11.8

Ideas can make you the smartest, most interesting guest at your next dinner party in less than 60 minutes.

0:18.7

It's got the best of a storytelling podcast

0:21.2

with the best of a great lecture.

0:23.6

You can pretty much never predict

0:25.4

where an episode will take you,

0:27.0

but you can count on every episode

0:29.0

to shift your perspective,

0:30.9

even just a little.

0:32.4

Find and follow ideas

0:33.7

wherever you get your podcasts.

0:39.7

This is a CBC podcast.

0:46.6

And we're sitting up here.

0:48.8

We're going to please get all in our hands to.

0:52.4

We go to please get all in our eyes. We go to please get all. Okay, I am

0:56.8

Okay, I am just, I am just elated, uh, I am just elated, uh, for this country. elated for this conversation. And this is a conversation that we've been hiding from Brian. So he's had no idea that we were going to do this. For our diehard listeners, you may remember not too recently, not too long ago, rather, the conversation

1:30.8

of cute aggression came up.

1:32.9

We are today joined by Dr. Catherine Stavropoulos, assistant professor at the University

1:39.7

of California, Riverside's graduate program in neuroscience and a licensed clinical psychologist

1:45.3

to talk about cute, aggressive.

1:51.3

Oh my God.

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