The official term for this is "baby schema" and it's all about the appeal of the baby's big head, round face, large eyes, and ...

In 1943, Konrad Lorenz, an Austrian ethologist and biologist, first proposed the concept of the “baby schema,” or the blueprint of features that induce our cuteness perception. Since then ...

Lu brought up the ‘baby schema’ concept – that humans are predisposed to find certain animals cute because they exhibit similar features to those of babies, such as a large head and large ...