Prof. Thomas Pollet

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]

It is that time of year again, not a festive period, but rather that time when students start drafting their theses (or internship reports). Often I see copy and pasted tables and figures straight out of SPSS. Inevitably, these make me cry and want to scratch my eyes out. That... [Read More]

I managed to get a twitter wall up and running, hurray. Mostly pictures of kittens, interspersed with ‘science’ stuff.