(1) Drawing on McArthur and Baron's (1983) ecological theory of social perception, the present research examined younger and older children's ability to differentiate male and female adults who varied in the babyishness of their facial appearance.
(2) Don't get me wrong, babies are great (mostly), but no adult wants their skin to be all babyish and squidgy.
(3) Konrad Lorenz first suggested in 1943 that certain physical and behavioral characteristics common to infants (babyishness) serve as cues to attract adult attention and care as well as to decrease the likelihood of aggression.
(4) Speech addressed to retarded adults was similar in numerous ways to the speech addressed to 6-year-olds; in some ways (e.g., repetitiveness), it was even more babyish.
(5) He clearly feels thwarted and unheard: hence his compulsive letter-writing to ministers , and babyish obsession with his own comfort.
(6) We found weak evidence that babyishness reduces anger.
(7) I can barely imagine anything more babyish than thinking he should – except perhaps the notion that Lineker can’t analyse Leicester-Crystal Palace tomorrow.