Kawaii & Tentai

Mouri-san’s Big Eyes for Big Cases

This stylization reminds me of what the ethologist Konrad Lorenz called the infant schema. Lorenz observed that, in a wide variety of animals species (reptile, bird, mammal), infants have rounder faces than adults, with less prominent noses, relatively larger eyes, and rounder cheeks. This morphology has a signal function; it is meant to elicit certain kinds of behavior from conspecifics. There is, one infers, some circuit in the brain that is sensitive to this morphology and that biases behavior in emotionally positive ways.

Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire, Volume 2, Frenchy Lunning, p 286

One comment on “Kawaii & Tentai”

  1. 23 Oct 2011 at 2:13 pm Uma Maheswar Nakka

    Good knowledge sharing
    Thanks and Regards
    Uma Maheswar


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