Go tall cutie! Not Helpful 92 Helpful How can I be cute without my friends thinking I'm weird from the sudden change? You can ease into it. Just make subtle changes over time. Mix and match the clothes you already wear with the ones you plan to wear.
People will barely notice if it's a gradual change. Not Helpful 30 Helpful Sweaters and high-waisted shorts are adorable! Some nice skinny jeans with something pastel for contrast is another cute idea. Not Helpful 37 Helpful This is a tough question to answer, because being cute is never a fact, but an opinion. If you want to know if a majority of people think you're cute, you should never ask them. People may tell lies, however, just to hurt or not hurt your feelings.
If people say that you're cute without you prompting them, then you're most likely very adorable. Not Helpful 56 Helpful Anybody can be cute! Not Helpful 43 Helpful Just smile.
Don't worry about the silly beauty standards of the world that tell you you must wear makeup to be attractive. Just be who you are. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered.
Do not change your voice to a squeaky wannabe cute tone. People will see right through you and that's not what you're aiming for. Helpful 56 Not Helpful 4. Don't let your need to be cute dominate your life. Some people feel the need to be happy and bubbly all the time, but by doing so, they begin to think that they can never be upset. They become a crying shoulder for others, and are stuck carrying the weight of their own problems as well as the problems of those around them. Helpful 45 Not Helpful 5.
Helpful 52 Not Helpful Don't think that being cute is being fake around others; it should come naturally. Your cuteness can come from the inside and project itself outward.
Helpful 50 Not Helpful 6. When you look at someone, keep your head slightly down and look at them with your eyes. Give a little smile. Helpful 38 Not Helpful 6. Helpful 28 Not Helpful 7. Paint your nails with some cute colors, like light pink or light purple, but don't go over the top with makeup. Maybe just a little bit of lip gloss. Helpful 27 Not Helpful 6. When speaking softly, make sure it's not too soft. The other person should be able to understand you clearly.
Soft and clear is the key. Helpful 28 Not Helpful 2. Helpful 20 Not Helpful Remember, this is also a matter of perspective. People find different things to be attractive or cute. This article just aligns with popular culture. Helpful 25 Not Helpful 2. Do not get hot tempered. Even if you had a fight with your friend or with your little brother.
Act a little mad but try to forget about it. Helpful 5 Not Helpful 1. Try to wear pretty prints and light colours, like pink. They make a huge impact.
Helpful 6 Not Helpful 1. Be yourself, you can put cute clothes and get nice hairstyles and be shy but be yourself because you don't want to be someone you're not. You make yourself you and anyone can be cute. Helpful 3 Not Helpful 1. Related wikiHows How to. How to. Co-authors: Updated: September 28, This makes sense if one conceptualizes cute aggression as a way to handle overwhelming feelings which occur in response to extremely cute things.
To explore the relationship between behavioral measures and brain activity, mediation models were run with N and RewP amplitude. For cute animals, the relationship between N amplitude and cute aggression was mediated by feeling overwhelmed. This finding is interesting as it sheds light on how brain activity relates to feelings of cute aggression. As the N is hypothesized to be a neural correlate of emotional salience, this suggests that people who find cute animals especially salient and are overwhelmed by those feelings experience cute aggression.
For cute animals, the relationship between RewP amplitude and cute aggression was serially mediated by appraisal and feeling overwhelmed. These findings mirror our behavioral findings in which feelings of caretaking and cute aggression were mediated by appraisal and feeling overwhelmed.
Taken together, these findings suggest that RewP amplitude and feelings of caretaking are similar in their relationship to cute aggression, feeling overwhelmed, and appraisal.
Finally, we found that RewP amplitude and cute aggression was serially mediated by feelings of caretaking and feeling overwhelmed. These serial mediation models underscore the complexity of cute aggression, and how it relates to a variety of both neural and behavioral measures e. No mediation models were significant for RewP and cute babies.
It is important to discuss limitations of the current study. The most important limitation to consider is the differences in our methods compared to previous research e. The primary goal of the current study was to explore neural correlates of cute aggression, and therefore we decided to directly compare neural responses within each participant.
A second limitation relates to the stimuli utilized in the current study. In order to be consistent with previous literature on cute aggression e. It is important to note, however, that the animal images were not as controlled as the baby images. The images of animals, however, were found online and depicted adult animals less cute and baby animals more cute. Thus, images of animals were different on multiple dimensions e.
This is an important consideration, particularly as our findings were most robust for animals, and no differences in brain activity or behavior were observed for images of babies. In addition, analyses on each type of animal e. However, we cannot rule out the possibility that the findings in the current study are, in part, explained by stimulus differences between the animal and baby conditions.
Future research should employ similar methods of image manipulation in both the baby and animal conditions as done by Borgi et al.
In the current study, we utilized images of a variety of animal species, including some that are often pets e. Future research related to cute aggression should consider having participants rate different species separately as well as collecting data on whether participants own pets.
Another limitation relates to our study population, and therefore the generalizability of our findings. The current study participants were college students at a large university, rather than a random sample of the general population. It is important to note that college-aged students may have different emotional reactions than individuals in the general population. One example, though anecdotal, underscores these differences.
She explained that images of cute babies elicited a variety of thoughts related to the future e. She mused aloud that individuals who have children might be more likely to experience cute aggression in response to cute babies compared to those who do not have children. In addition, when mothers were given intranasal oxytocin, a hormone involved with social and parental bonding, more robust brain activity was observed for facial expressions Peltola et al.
We found this idea fascinating and wanted to explore whether participants with children had significant differences in either behavioral or brain measures. Unfortunately, none of our participants had children, so we were unable to perform statistical analyses related to this question. We suggest that future researchers may want to systematically investigate this question. Another limitation, although not directly related to the current research question, is of note. One participant mentioned that all the babies in our stimulus set were Caucasian.
The participant noted that future studies might want to measure cute aggression as it relates to same versus different racial backgrounds e. This in an interesting question that should be explored in future research. Overall, our findings suggest that cute aggression is related to neural mechanisms of both emotional salience and reward processing.
The current study is the first to our knowledge that explores mechanisms of cute aggression and provides insight into how cute aggression affects brain activity and behavior. Cute aggression appears to be a complex and multi-faceted emotional response that likely serves to mediate strong emotional responses and allow caretaking to occur.
It would be of clinical interest and utility to explore whether individuals with disorders related to reward and emotions e. KS designed the experiments and analyzed the data. LA and KS ran subjects, conceptualized and wrote the paper. The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
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Log in Sign Up. Save Word. Essential Meaning of cute. Full Definition of cute Entry 1 of 2. Definition of cute Entry 2 of 2. Other Words from cute Adjective cutely adverb. The Unlikely Evolution of Cute Adjective Cute is a word whose meaning has gone has gone through a thorough historical transformation. Examples of cute in a Sentence Adjective she's very nice, but she's not afraid to get cute when there's something she wants we're having a serious discussion here, so cut the cute remarks.
First Known Use of cute Adjective circa , in the meaning defined at sense 1a Noun , in the meaning defined above.
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