Prof. Thomas Pollet

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]

This paper has been on the back burner since 2015. It is a short report examining Facebook network characteristics and their relationship to loneliness. It was part of a research project by Marit Eidt, who is now a portfolio manager of a start up in Amsterdam, and Riana Brown, who... [Read More]

This blog post is just a small piece about a published student project, which also was covered in the Times (pay-walled) and on improbable.com. In previous work, we have found gender differences in risk taking behaviour in cyclists, such as for example, in crossing a train track. Men were more... [Read More]

Tomorrow, I am giving a talk for the PACT Lab. It is a little bit scattered, as usual. It just pulls together the random bits and pieces, I have been doing relating to cyberpsychology. These cover topics as diverse as online dating, CVs, and Facebook usage and egocentric social networks.... [Read More]