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What evolutionary purpose does the emotion of finding something cute serve?
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∙ 13y ago
"Finding something cute" is not an emotion. It is a personal intellectual decision based on the education, individual nature and upbringing of a particular person.
It serves no evolutionary purpose. It is merely an offshoot of the evolutionary development of human intelligence.
AnswerI remember reading once (this was a looooong time ago, like 14 years ago) that the reason babies are cute (or, the reason we find babies to be cute) is to help our species survive. Finding babies to be cute gives us more incentive to take care of them. It makes us want to take care of them, even if they are not our own biological children.
A repulsively, grotesquely ugly baby that is abandoned on the side of the road or something is less likely to arouse our sympathies than a cute and adorable one. The cute one is more likely to be taken home and adopted than the repulsive one.
I have no idea if this is actually true or not. Like I said, it's just something I read about many years ago. But I think it might be what this question is referring to.
Either way, it doesn't really have much -- if anything -- to do with evolution, but only with keeping the species in existence.
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