Prof. Thomas Pollet

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.

It is the start of the year, again. I was recently ‘promoted’ to Director of Learning and Teaching: ‘experience’ (though it could be ‘journey’, I always forget which title… .). And one of the perks is that I get to hold the Induction Quiz. If you want to play along... [Read More]

I am lucky enough to find myself in Amsterdam at HBES, just after being in sunny Spain. Here, you can find my slides and see what I attempted in terms of trying to use machine learning to predict settlement patterns the ethnographic atlas. This would not have been possible without... [Read More]

I am lucky enough to find myself in sunny Spain on a workshop on evolutionary social psychology organised by Bram Buunk. Perhaps, I am always going to be an outsider but, I think, I have seen the good, the bad and ugly. Here, you can find my slides and see... [Read More]

This paper has also been on the back burner for a while. It is a short report examining loneliness as measured with the SELS-A has the same underlying structure in men and women. We found that the structure is indeed the same in men and women. Interestingly, we also found... [Read More]