Prof. Thomas Pollet

Today I’m presenting what is very much a work in progress for our lab group. It’s a short talk about using graphs to help us select stimuli in a context where we collect ratings. Often a evolutionary psychology designs will use an “attractive” face or an “unattractive” face attached to... [Read More]

In a project led by Michael Grugan, we examined the structure of the National Student Survey (NSS). This is a measure which is offered to all students in their final year of undergraduate studies. We obtained the raw data via a freedom of information request. We made these data public... [Read More]

Hurray! I am quite chuffed that we published our paper entitled “Revisiting the relationship between birth order and romantic jealousy: No support for an effect in four samples.” This is the work of multiple students who worked with me to collect multiple samples on birth order and jealousy. To summarise... [Read More]

As I anticipate I might face a wave of AI generated theses/assessments, I spent some time building a “doi checker” with some help of my silicon friends (Claude Opus - Why not co-opt the tools which brought us this mess … ). This is so I can easily check whether... [Read More]

Tomorrow I’ll present a guest lecture on Open Research to our third year bachelor students. I’ll cover why we think open research important and some other bits and bobs. You can find slides here: https://tvpollet.github.io/Guest_lecture_open_research_BSc_thesis/Open_research.html#1. You can use the arrows to navigate. If you want to print a copy, use... [Read More]