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So Cute You Could Crush It?
如此可爱以至于你会想去捏他
Have you ever felt compelled to pinch a baby's cheeks, albeit without a desire to harm it? If you answered yes, you've experienced a phenomenon called cute aggression -- and you're far from alone.
你可曾很想捏婴儿的脸颊，尽管并没有想去伤害他？如果你的答案是是的，那么你已经经历一种可爱侵犯的现象——而且不是只有你一个
compel v.强迫，迫使
albeitconj.尽管, 虽然
Stavropoulos, a licensed clinical psychologist with a background in neuroscience, uses electrophysiology to evaluate surface-level electrical activity that arises from neurons firing in people's brains. By studying that activity, she gauges neural responses to a range of external stimuli.
Stavropoulos，是一个有神经科学背景的认证的临床心理学家，使用电子生理学技术去评估人们大脑中神经活动导致的表面电子活动的增加，通过研究这种活动，他测量了在一系列外部刺激下神经反应
evaluate v.评估，评价
Stavropoulos said she first heard the term "cute aggression" after a team of Yale University psychologists released research related to the phenomenon in 2015.
Stavropoulos 说他第一次听说“可爱侵犯”是在一次耶鲁大学的心理学家小组在2015年发起了与这种这个现象相关的研究
"The Yale researchers initially found that people reported feeling cute aggression more in response to baby animalsversus adult animals," Stavropoulos said. "But even beyond that, people reported feeling cute aggression more in response to pictures of human babies that had been digitally enhanced to appear moreinfantile, and therefore 'more cute,' by enlarging features like their eyes, cheeks, and foreheads."
“耶鲁大学的研究员们首次发现人们报告感觉到可爱侵犯在幼年的动物上更多相比较于成年动物”Stavropoulos 说“但是即使忽略那一点，人们报告感觉到可爱侵犯是更多的表现在反应在人类的孩子已经数字化的去表现更多的孩子气，也因此变得更加可爱的，通过增强他们眼睛、脸颊和额头的特征的画面中”
versusprep.对；与…相对；对抗
infantileadj.婴幼儿特有的, 孩子气的, 婴儿的, 幼儿的
Afterporing over the Yale research, Stavropoulos wondered whether there was a neural component to cute aggression.
在仔细的阅读了耶鲁的研究之后，Stavropoulos 想知道是否有与可爱侵犯的神经成分存在
pore over 仔细的阅读 研究
Stavropoulos hypothesized that the brains of people who reported experiencing cute aggression would, in fact, provide evidence of detectable activity. She suggested the activity might be related to the brain's reward system, which deals with motivation, feelings of "wanting," and pleasure, or to its emotion system, which handles emotional processing -- or, more likely, to both.
Stavropoulos 假定报告体验过可爱侵略的人们的大脑有这种神经成分，在实际上，提供一个呢个检测出来的活动的证据。他认为这种活动可能与大脑的奖励系统有关系，这种系统处理动机，“想要”的感觉和快乐，或者和情感系统有关，这种系统是处理人们的情感机制，或者更有可能两者都有关系
hypothesize v.假设, 假定
Stavropoulos and UCR doctoral student Laura Alba recruited 54 study participants between the ages of 18 and 40, all of whom agreed to wear caps outfitted with electrodes. While wearing the caps, participants looked at four blocks of 32 photographs divided into categories: cute (enhanced) babies; less cute (non-enhanced) babies; cute (baby) animals; less cute (adult) animals.
Stavropoulos 和 UCR 医学生Laura Alba招募了54名年龄在18到40岁之间的研究参与者，这些参与者都同意带上电子装备的帽子。在带着这个帽子的时候，参与者看32个图片这些图片被分成了四组，分别是：可爱（增强的）婴儿、比较少的可爱（没有增强的）的婴儿，可爱的（幼年）动物，少一点可爱的（成年）动物
recruit v.吸收（新成员）, 征募（新兵）, 动员…（提供帮助）, （通过招募）组成
n.新兵, 新警员, 新成员
After viewing each block on a computer screen, participants were then shown a set of statements and asked to rate how much they agreed with them on a scale of 1 to 10.
在电脑上看完了每一组图片之后，参与者被提供一组声明，并且被询问他们所认定的等级，从1到10
The survey was designed to assess how cute participants found each block of photographs -- known as "appraisal" -- and how much cute aggression they were experiencing in response. Participants also rated how overwhelmed they felt after viewing the photos and whether they felt compelled to take care of what they had just viewed.
这种研究被设计来评估参与者认为每一组照片的可爱程度，也就是“评价”，和多少的可爱侵犯他们的经历中可以体会到。参与者也评估了他们在看到了图片之后感到不知所措的感觉的程度和他们在看过图片之后是否有强照顾看到的图片中的对象的想法。
Overall, participants self-reported more significant feelings of cute aggression, being overwhelmed, appraisal, and caretaking toward cute (baby) animals than toward less cute (adult) animals. Among the two categories of babies -- cute (enhanced) and less cute (non-enhanced) -- the researchers did not observe the same pattern.
对于可爱的动物和不那么可爱的动物而言，参与者的个人报告中体现了的，可爱侵犯、不知所措。评估和照顾动物的想法的程度都更加高，在婴儿的分类方面，可爱的婴儿相较于不可爱的婴儿，研究人员没有发现同样的特征
Using electrophysiology, Stavropoulos also measured study participants' brain activity before, during, and after viewing the sets of images.
通过电子心理学的方法，Stavropoulos 也提前测量了研究参与者的大脑的活动，在看这些图片之前，看的时候和看完了的时候
Based on the neural activity she observed in participants who experienced cute aggression, Stavropoulos's findings offer direct evidence of both the brain's reward system and emotion system being involved in the phenomenon.
基于神经活动，他在经历了可爱侵犯的参与者的大脑中观察到，Stavropoulos的研究提供了直接的证据，即大脑中的奖励系统和情感系统都在这个现象中发挥了作用
"There was an especially strong correlation between ratings of cute aggression experienced toward cute animals and the reward response in the brain toward cute animals," Stavropoulos said. "This is an exciting finding, as it confirms our original hypothesis that the reward system is involved in people's experiences of cute aggression."
“这有着极其强烈的关联在对可爱动物上的可爱侵犯的经历与在大脑上对可爱动物的奖励反应”Stavropoulos 说“这是个让人激动的研究，因为它证实了我们的最初的假说奖励系统在人们的可爱侵犯体会上发挥着作用
Another result that Stavropoulos said lends weight to prior theories: The relationship between how cute something is and how much cute aggression someone experiences toward it appears to be tied to how overwhelmed that person is feeling.
Stavropoulos 说另一个结果使得先前的结果更加可信：一个事物可爱的程度和一个人对它的可爱侵犯的感受的关系展现出了和一个人感受的不知所措紧密相关
lend weight to 有助于，使…更可信
"Essentially, for people who tend to experience the feeling of 'not being able to take how cute something is,' cute aggression happens," Stavropoulos said. "Our study seems to underscore the idea that cute aggression is the brain's way of 'bringing us back down' by mediating our feelings of being overwhelmed."
”基本上，对于那些倾向于有这种体会‘一个东西太可爱了以至于受不了了’的人来说可爱侵犯就会发生“，Stavropoulos 说”我们的研究似乎是去强调可爱入侵是大脑的方式去用”让我们冷静的“办法去医治不知所措“
essentially adv.基本上, 本质上, 根本上
Stavropoulos likened this process of mediation to an evolutionary adaptation. Such an adaptation may have developed as a means of ensuring people are able to continue taking care of creatures they consider particularly cute.
Stavropoulos 将这种流程比作进化的适应性，这种适应都是可能为了确保人们能照顾好可爱的生物而发展出来
"For example, if you find yourself incapacitated by how cute a baby is, that baby is going to starve," Stavropoulos said. "Cute aggression may serve as a tempering mechanism that allows us to function and actually take care of something we might first perceive as overwhelmingly cute."
”举个例子，如果你发现你对一个孩子的可爱已经没有感觉，这个婴儿快饿死了"Stavropoulos 说“可爱侵犯可能是作为一种让我们起作用并且总是照顾我们我们第一映像是可爱的不知所措的东西机制而运行”