“All a mom wants in life… go to cute apple orchard, with her cute family, and take cute photos, and get cute apple cider. 🍎🍏🍁,” Tori wrote to caption the photos, which she shared on ...

And indeed, in another experiment, the researchers found the cute-picture-viewing participants were better at honing in on local features than identifying big-picture elements of visual stimuli.

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