Prof. Thomas Pollet

Just a quick post, to tell you that I am giving a talk at LSHTM. This was perhaps a bit of a rush job (still feeling the post-conference blues from EHBEA @ Toulouse). In this talk, I review my work on egocentric social networks. All the relevant papers including preprints... [Read More]

Just a quick post, to tell you that we have a new preprint. This was a project led by my Bachelor project student who did his project on nerds (N=472). It is a short report on the Nerdy Personality Attribute Scale. We uncover a three factor structure and examine how... [Read More]

Just a quick post, to tell you that I am presenting a poster at EHBEA in lovely Toulouse. I’ll be standing next to it, awkwardly nodding. This is still very much work in progress, but we analyse the probabilities of red vs. blue winning at the Olympics (and boxing championships).... [Read More]

A lot of other things have happened and I have sadly neglected the blog. But I’ll start posting new things from time to time. This post is about a new paper on PsyArxiv. This project started out as a student Bachelor project, well actually two. Two students of mine wanted... [Read More]

This paper has been accepted for publication in Interpersona. This will hopefully lead to more work on loneliness and social networks, which is were I want to take my work in the near future.