Bad day? Take two fluffy kittens and call me in the morning. Researchers at Emory University say that looking at pictures of cute baby animals could give you a lift. Functional magnetic resonance imaging showed that cute images stimulate the centers of the brain associated with pleasure, arousal and positive emotion. “Some evidence suggests the activity there is greater when the stimulus is ‘neotenous,’ which is to say it has juvenile characteristics — a button nose, big eyes, a wobbly head, chubby extremities or pudgy cheeks,” according to the Miami Herald. Need a feel-good fix? Cuteoverload.com and super cute puppies through a fish-eye lens.