20 - Ten things: Middle children, yoga or aerobics, partners look like your mum, Barbie dolls, cat personality, dancing, diagnosing Gollum, swearing, sleeping positions & city disorders.

20 - This pod is a 10 item Things We Came Across Special to celebrate our 20th episode (like what we did for the 10th episode - but with less Star Wars). We talk about 10 different and unusual psychology research papers. Hunter's papers run the gamete of asking whether middle children are socially more advanced, which parent physical characteristics do we find attractive in potential partners (creepy), discusses cat personality traits, what diagnosis Gollum from Lord of the Rings has (nerd alert), and what predicts couples initial sleeping positions. Meanwhile Amy tackles the topics of which type of exercise is best for mood (seeking confirmatory bias for yoga), the depressing research on what playing with Barbie does to girls career aspirations, why theory of mind and dancing are linked, why is it good to swear when socially excluded, and finishes with a discussion on disorders named after cities. Hunter's articles Face preferences (Do I like my partner because he looks like my dad?): http://www.ehbonline.org/article/S1090-5138(15)00059-8/fulltext Birth order and cooperativeness (do middle children rule?): http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjdp.12180/full What is Gollum's diagnosis : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC535969 Cat personality: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376635716303308?via%3Dihub Sleep positions (don't touch me! or lets cuddle): https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/article/view/32590 Amy's articles Exercise (Amy attempts to show yoga is better than aerobics) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27514246 Barbie dolls and career aspirations in girls https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-014-0347-y Dancing and theory of mind http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cdev.12314/abstract Swearing, pain and social exclusion http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsp.2264/abstract Disorders named after cities http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/0027773814Z.00000000087?journalCode=ynam20 20 - Ten things that we came across - from cat personality traits to diagnosing Gollum Dr Hunter Mulcare & Amy Donaldson Download