Library Guides: The Well for Health Promotion: Importance of Cute

Cuteness

Untangle the kitty. Ms Kali. Adorable young cat of Raquel Horlick, Research & Instruction Librarian, Sciences

Cat Videos on the Web
Maru, Colonel Meow, Henri Le Chat Noir, Grumpy Cat, Piano Cat, and Lil' BUB. ALL IN ONE PLACE!!!! This is one of the most amazing research guides ever!
Cute Overload
An endless supply of daily cute videos and images - all with great captions.
I can haz cheezburger?
Site full of lol cats and other images of cuteness and terrible spellings
I can haz hotdog?
The doggie version of lol cats and I can haz cheezeburger.
Reddit's Aww section
The best distraction section available via Reddit

Borgi, M., Cogliati-Dezza, I., Brelsford, V., Meints, K., & Cirulli, F. (2014). Baby schema in human and animal faces induces cuteness perception and gaze allocation in children. Frontiers in psychology, 5.
Golle, J., Lisibach, S., Mast, F. W., & Lobmaier, J. S. (2013). Sweet puppies and cute babies: Perceptual adaptation to babyfacedness transfers across species. PloS one, 8(3), e58248.
Nittono, H., Fukushima, M., Yano, A., & Moriya, H. (2012). The power of kawaii: Viewing cute images promotes a careful behavior and narrows attentional focus. PloS one, 7(9), e46362.
Nittono, H., & Tanaka, K. (2010). Psychophysiological responses to kawaii (cute) visual images. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 77(3), 268-269.
Sherman, G. D., Haidt, J., & Coan, J. A. (2009). Viewing cute images increases behavioral carefulness. Emotion, 9(2), 282.