Prof. Thomas Pollet


This page will feature updates on my work.

EHBEA 2025 finished!

It is finally done: www.ehbea2025.com finished a while back. And I have just about recovered. It didn’t help that I felt ill for most of it. I think it went well largely due to the excellent team - I am but a small cog in the machine. [Read More]
Tags: Admin, EHBEA, Coding

A talk about judgments of similarity of other species to humans... .

It already seems eons ago but at one point we received some funding to look into Evolutionary Psychology text books. What struck me is that often exemplars get invoked, non-human animals, to illustrate a point about for example, altruism. We wondered if that might influence about how individuals could think... [Read More]
Tags: Psychonetrics, Anthropomorphism, Evolutionary Psychology

A new preprint on university rankings... .

We have a new preprint. This paper is a research article demonstrating how institution ranking lists compare to a robust ranking method based on subjects, in a UK context. Simply put, publications such as the Guardian produce lists of institutions overall, next to rankings of institutions by each subject. However,... [Read More]
Tags: Robust Ranking method, R, University Rankings