Preprint on gender and friendships.

I can’t believe that we are already 2.5 months into the new year and that I have not posted any updates - as stuff has actually happened. This brief post is to announce that we have updated our preprint. This was a project which grew out of the work by... [Read More]
Tags: Research, Gender, exciting-stuff, Friendships, Egocentric Social Network analysis

Preprint on a nerdy personality updated.

It has been a long year and I have not posted too much but as the year draws to a close: A very quick post. This is to announce that we have updated our preprint. This was a project led by my Bachelor project student who did his project on... [Read More]
Tags: Research, Personality, exciting-stuff, NERDS!, Factor analysis

New preprint on friendships and psychological well-being

We have submitted a new preprint to PsyArxiv. This is a project led by Alex Thompson and it is the first submitted paper from her PhD - yay! She would probably do a much better job at explaining the results than I do (She won the faculty of health and... [Read More]
Tags: Research, Loneliness, Curvilinear relationships, Preprint

Markdown tutorial.

For my course (PY0794), I made a very short introduction to Markdown on youtube. Have a look. There was a hiccup, as I couldn’t seem to get it to accept my solution to paragraphs in lists? (Lesson 6, final element). Anyway, I have never had to use it, so don’t... [Read More]
Tags: teaching, research methods, RMarkdown, Coding, R

Induction materials PY0794.

In my home country (Belgium), schools are back on. Soon the academic year starts off here at Northumbria University. To that end, I have compiled an ‘induction’ page for my quantitative research methods course (PY0794). I’ll update it in due course but already some things to browse through if you... [Read More]
Tags: teaching, research methods