Prof. Thomas Pollet


This page will feature updates on my work.

Potential thesis projects!

I am happy to announce that I have made a list of thesis projects for the next academic year. These topics are suitable for Bachelor, MSc. and MRes. level. As always, I strongly encourage replication projects. Nothing beats a well-done replication study for your project. I also encourage projects on... [Read More]
Tags: Teaching, Replication studies, Social network analysis, Meta-science

Preprint on loneliness and Facebook accepted (and preprint on Nerds as well!).

This brief post is to announce that our preprint has been accepted for publication in Cyberpsychology. This project was carried out by Riana Brown, an MRes. intern at the time, now a PhD student at New York University, together with another intern. We asked people to extract their own Facebook... [Read More]
Tags: Research, loneliness, exciting-stuff, Facebook research

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