The protagonist is typically a small animal with a big head and big eyes, features collectively known as “baby schema”—a phrase coined in a 1943 paper by Austrian ethologist Konrad Lorenz.

Small and cute: why crafters love 'little thingies' JENNIFER FORKER. Wed, May 10, 2017 at 1:24 PM UTC. This image provided by Quirk Books shows crochet characters from the literary classic "Moby ...

The feeling that something is cute can be hard to explain, especially from a scientific standpoint. While more than 1000 research studies have been conducted on emotions such as fear, fewer than ...