I read the entire series and it's well written, the plot is nicely developed, the characters are well rounded and unique, the art is great. Considering that the photographs are of the same babies and that all participants in the current study saw all conditions, it seems plausible that lack of differences in the N200 (and behavioral ratings) can be explained by the two conditions not being sufficiently different for this type of within-subjects design.

Mediation models were utilized to shed light on relationships between multiple variables of interest. g., we did not obtain ratings about how participants felt about each of the eight images of baby animals separately, but rather, about how they felt about all of the baby animal photographs). Overall, our findings suggest that cute aggression is related to neural mechanisms of both emotional salience and reward processing.Additionally, we tested three serial mediation models using PROCESS Model 6 ( Hayes, 2018): (1) To test whether the relationship between feelings of caretaking ( X) and expressions of cute aggression ( Y) would be serially mediated by appraisal ( M 1) and feelings of being overwhelmed ( M 2) and (2) To test whether the relationship between RewP amplitude ( X) and expressions of cute aggression ( Y) would be serially mediated by appraisal ( M 1) and feeling overwhelmed ( M 2). Tormented and bullied by Azusa, her life vastly improves once she meets Mitsuru (disguised as Mego), who vows to protect her.

Participants were shown statements and asked to rate how much they agreed with each one on a scale from 1 to 10, with 1–2 representing, “not at all true,” 3–4 representing “a little bit true,” 5–6 representing “true,” 7–8 representing “very true,” and 9–10 representing “completely true. The authors posited that evolutionarily, it would not have been adaptive to become incapacitated by positive feelings in response to a very cute baby who required caretaking. Participants were recruited through the University of California, Riverside subject pool and from on-campus flyers. The authors found increased activation in brain areas related to reward, social cognition, and affiliation in response to both familiar children and dogs (e.

we hypothesized that the relationship between caretaking and cute aggression would be serially mediated by appraisal and feeling overwhelmed. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. To test whether the relationship between RewP amplitude ( X) and expressions of cute aggression ( Y) would be serially mediated by feelings of caretaking ( M 1) and feeling overwhelmed ( M 2).