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EP42 cute aggressive

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Watching a kitten fumbling around , it might feel as if you’ve never encountered anything so devastatingly adorable in your mortal live . But you may also feel the conflicting urge to squeeze or smush the kitten . This urge which phycologists call cute aggression ,is a surprisingly common one estimate to affect about a half of all adults . Cut aggression is importantly not link to the actual intention to do harm, instead it seems to result from emotional overload . Some scientist think the cute things (elicited) such positive emotions from certain people ,that the experiences becomes overwhelming . They hypothesize that sightly aggressive discordant thoughts ,are the brain’s way of putting the brake on, and regulating those intense feelings , not getting you to actually eat a kitten .

elicited 引出

hypothesize 假设

estimate to affect 估计影响

discordant 不和谐的



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