Things We Came Across

This page lists the Things We Came Across articles we've talked about. It's a little bit for you, in case you're looking some interesting dinner party facts or enjoy us having a giggle. But it's mainly for us - Amy has to keep checking if she's covered enough Harry Potter content (answer: she has not) and Hunter wants to be sure he's covered all of the Star Wars psychology literature. This stuff is important!

Harry Potter

• Ep 4 - Harry Potter & the Measures of Personality

• Ep 41 - Harry Potter & the Pathological Personalities

Star Wars

• Ep 10 Anakin Skywalker's personality diagnosis: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4

• Ep 1 - Vulnerabilities of the Death Star

TV

• Ep 45 - Game of Thrones

• Ep 35 - Binge watching

• Ep 33 - Survivor voting patterns and alliances

• Ep 32 - Reality tv and aggression

• Ep 32 - Australian Survivor podcast

• Ep 31 - Surviving Survivor

• Ep 21 - Dr Brown Bear

• Ep 15 - Psychologists in reality tv

• Ep 10 - Delusional disorder in Seinfeld

• Ep 6 - Big Brother

• Ep 4 - Tuning Into Fantasy: Motivations to View Wedding Television and Associated Romantic Beliefs

• Ep 4 - fivethirtyeight.com - how to spot a front runner on the 'Bachelor' or 'Bachelorette'

Movies

• Ep 24 - Shawshank Redemption ending

• Ep 21 - Bond Adequacy Disorder

• Ep 20 - Gollum's diagnosis

• Ep 12 - Spoilers

• Ep 9 - Learning in My Fair Lady

• Ep 6 - Spider Man's Suit

Celebrity

• Ep 66 - Insulting James Blunt

• Ep 9 - Celebrity worship

Personality

• Ep 20 - Cat personality

• Ep 10 - Politicians' personalities

• Ep 4 - Harry Potter & the Measures of Personality

• Ep 3 - Espionage & Psychopathology

• Ep 2 - Dog & Cat People

Relationships

• Ep 47 - Cool status

• Ep 20 - Swearing, pain & social exclusion

• Ep 20 - Sleep positions (don't touch me! or lets cuddle)

• Ep 20 - Face preferences (Do I like my partner because he looks like my dad?)

• Ep 15 - Trolling, tinder & the dark triad

• Ep 5 - Phubbing

Food & Drink

• Ep 49 - Food neophobia

• Ep 48 - Impact of a hangover on mood & cognition

• Ep 47 - Alcohol taste & context

• Ep 39 - Feeling hangry

• Ep 38 - Bitter taste preference and psychopathy

• Ep 29 - Social snacking

• Ep 27 - Does self-prepared food taste better?

• Ep 17 - Food cravings

• Ep 13 - Alcohol & lyrics

• Ep 11 - James Bond's drinks

• Ep 11 - Chocolate survival times

• Ep 10 - Spicy food preferences and motivation

Family

• Ep 20 - Birth order and cooperativeness (do middle children rule?)

Travel

• Ep 65 - Cryving

• Ep 26 - Holiday weight gain

Music

• Ep 45 - Sourness and music perception

• Ep 42 - Positive and negative earworms

• Ep 26 - Seasonal music taste

• Ep 24 - Every little thing podcast - why does music give us the chills?

• Ep 24 - Aesthetic goosebumps

• Ep 18 - Earworms (stuck song syndrome)

• Ep 13 - Alcohol & lyrics

Animals (tbh it’s mainly cats)

• Ep 72 - When do octopuses play?

• Ep 68 - Sloth bears (I can’t believe it’s not sloth)

• Ep 46 - Scary & revolting animals

• Ep 20 - Cat personality

• Ep 10 - Cats & attachment

Arts & Crafts

• Ep 61 - Fainting in painting

• Ep 25 - Young women's knitting motivations

• Ep 25 - Knitting to prevent osteoarthritis

Books & Words

• Ep 73 - Book recommendation: In Moonland by Miles Allinson

• Ep 67 - Toxicity of George’s Marvellous Medicine

• Ep 66 - Medieval insult generator

• Ep 46 - Spell checker and how we view authors

• Ep 12 - Heffalumps

• Ep 8 - Library collections

• Ep 8 - Untranslatable words

Gender

• Ep 20 - Barbie dolls and career aspirations in girls

• Ep 13 - Sex differences in ikea assembly

Holidays

• Ep 42 - Auricular amputation in rabbits

• Ep 22 - Christmas cards

• Ep 21 - Subjective wellbeing at Christmas

• Ep 21 - Christmas cracker victory

• Ep 21 - Belief in Santa

Exercise & sport

• Ep 31 - Parachute effectiveness

• Ep 28 - World cup player portraits and world cup success

• Ep 28 - The haka

• Ep 28 - World cup road trip podcast

• Ep 28 - No such thing as a fish, world cup special episode 221

Clinical issues

• Ep 67 - Personality & internet gaming disorder

• Ep 45 - Pervasive labelling

• Ep 39 - Orthorexia

• Ep 30 - White coat hypertension & personality

• Ep 27 - Scanning salmon

• Ep 27 - The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is dead, but like Elvis, there will still be citings

• Ep 23 - The Martha Mitchell effect (or, how clinicians mislabel events as delusional)

• Ep 20 - Disorders named after cities

• Ep 20 - Exercise (Amy attempts to show yoga is better than aerobics)

• Ep 19 - Mortality when cardiologists are at a conference

• Ep 18 - The July effect

• Ep 10 - Medical conspiracy theories

• Ep 10 - Psychiatry in combat

• Ep 5 - Misophonia

• Ep 3 - Amputee envy

Psychological effects & processes

• Ep 68 - Use of bridges

• Ep 65 - The commonness fallacy

• Ep 63 - Imagining barriers to reduce cheating

• Ep 31 - Placebo effect

• Ep 29 - Seeing Jesus in toast

• Ep 29 - Channing tater

• Ep 23 - Tricks that make us tip

• Ep 19 - Magic understanding across the lifespan

• Ep 16 - Smells & memory

• Ep 10 - Unfortunate first names

• Ep 10 - The SPOT effect (or why I'm always right)

Health

• Ep 34 - Diseases of the 1800s

Podcasts

• Ep 72 - Did little Albert develop a fear response?

• Ep 55 - Stuff you should know, Falklands War

• Ep 40 - Susan Calman’s Mrs Brightside

• Ep 40 - Trumpcast

• Ep 40 - Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History

• Ep 34 - Ologies

• Ep 32 - Australian Survivor

• Ep 29 - The Fitzroy Diaries

• Ep 28 - World cup road trip podcast

• Ep 28 - No such thing as a fish, world cup special episode 221

• Ep 26 - Stupidly small podcast

• Ep 24 - Every little thing podcast - why does music give us the chills?

• Ep 23 - Slow Burn - Watergate

Letters to the editor

• Ep 42 - A perfectionistic proposal to the personality disorders committee for DSM-6 on the wording of the Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder criteria

Work

• Ep 48 - Daylight saving & workplace injury

• Ep 36 - Missing teaspoons

• Ep 33 - Resume photos

• Ep 16 - Academic spam

• Ep 7 - What not to wear in psychiatry

• Ep 7 - Doctor's attire (Korea)

• Ep 7 - Doctor's attire (Hawai'i)

Everything else

• Ep 73 - Letter to the editor (about hair)

• Ep 73 - Robots taking over the world: schadenfreude, storytelling, conflict resolution strategies, humourous robot photographer

• Ep 61 - Personality & pokemon go!

• Ep 49 - Public shaming

• Ep 47 - The brain on art

• Ep 34 - Survivalists

• Ep 33 - Dr Ford

• Ep 32 - Phantom vibrations

• Ep 30 - Aping expressions

• Ep 28 - Creepy clowns

• Ep 22 - Tooth Fairy's bias

• Ep 20 - Dancing and theory of mind

• Ep 17 - Handedness & dream recall

• Ep 10 - Imaginary friends

• Ep 10 - Nostalgia & identity

• Ep 2 - Astronauts & Wonder