Beyond the baby schema: Objects being touched are perceived to be cute

• Akane Ohashi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Akane Ohashi, Hiroshi Nittono

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ohashi-yagi@hus.osaka-u.ac.jp (AO); nittono@hus.osaka-u.ac.jp (NH)

  Affiliation Graduate School of Human Sciences, The University of Osaka, Suita, Osaka, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0009-0008-4512-5532

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• Hiroshi Nittono

  Contributed equally to this work with: Akane Ohashi, Hiroshi Nittono

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ohashi-yagi@hus.osaka-u.ac.jp (AO); nittono@hus.osaka-u.ac.jp (NH)

  Affiliation Graduate School of Human Sciences, The University of Osaka, Suita, Osaka, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5671-609X

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