>[!citation] >Kis, I. (2021, February 12). _Kindchenschema: The science of cute_. Imperial Bioscience Review. https://imperialbiosciencereview.wordpress.com/2021/02/12/kindchenschema/ >[!abstract] >Even though the English language (and many others) lack a word for the feeling associated with interacting with cute things, there is certainly a specific emotion characteristic to it. This has yet to be pinpointed and thoroughly described, but, ever since ethologist Lorenz Konrad first described what he called the ‘[[Kindchenschema]]’ in 1943, more and more research has been done on this topic.