Prof. Thomas Pollet


This page will feature updates on my work.

New preprint on birth order and romantic jealousy

Actually, I posted the preprint a while back, but did not get to writing about it. This is a culmination of several project students who attempted to replicate the findings from Buunk (1997) on birth order. Across three measures, Buunk (1997) found that firstborns reported less jealousy than laterborns. Across... [Read More]
Tags: Jealousy, Birth order, Teaching, Preprint

Plotting a preprint co-author network...

Following a post by Matti Vuorre on how to plot a PsyArxiv co-author network over on BlueSky, I had a stab at making my own! My attempt is below. Code can be found here. [Read More]
Tags: Research, R, Social network analysis, Preprints

Preprint on gender and evolutionary psychology indexes - accepted!

This is just a small post, to celebrate that our preprint on gender and indexes in evolutionary psychology text books is now accepted for publication in Human Ethology . Thanks to my co-authors, helpful reviewers and the editor (Iris Holzleitner) for their support. [Read More]
Tags: Research, Preprint, Gender, Evolutionary Psychology