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SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND PERSONALITY
Volume 34, Issue 9, Pages 1087-1099Publisher
SOC PERSONALITY RES INC
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2006.34.9.1087
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assessment of cuteness; factors of cuteness; Japanese children; five-year-olds; gender
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A newly developed questionnaire revealed that there are four factors in adults' perception of children's cuteness: childlike behavior, children's imitation of adults, adults' protective feeling toward children, and children's physical attributes. Eighty-four childless undergraduates and 72 adults with at least one child watched a film of a five-year-old boy and girl dressed either in boyish clothes or girlish, and then assessed their cuteness using the questionnaire. The results showed that participants rated equally their feeling of children's cuteness regardless of having or not having their own children. Among the four factors of cuteness, childlike behavior seemed to operate most strongly.
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