Prof. Thomas Pollet

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]

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]

I built two apps with Shiny which allows building apps in R. I then deployed these via Shinylive to GitHub pages. So they run in your browser. Though, it could take some time to load [Read More]