Prof. Thomas Pollet

It has been a while,… . COVID-19 is still wreaking havoc but I did find some time to revisit the write-up of a bachelor project from last year by Sarah Dawson. You can find the preprint here. Sarah tried to replicate this (paywalled) paper by Corning and Gondoli (2012). This... [Read More]

A small post about a new resource on my website. As COVID-19 is causing a lot of disruption, a minor part is to student projects. Students who were planning on collecting data in person can no longer do so. Now obviously a lot of research can move to online data... [Read More]

A very brief post to highlight a session which I gave last week to our prospective students, slides can be found here. I have picked the same topic as for the Master students as t also allows me to do some shameless self-promotion of our forthcoming paper in Personality and... [Read More]

A very brief post to highlight a session which I gave last week to our MSc. Psychology students (Conversion degree), slides can be found here. I was asked by a colleague to pick a classic study within my area of interest. Classic here does not mean personal favourite, but I... [Read More]

A good start to the year! Our paper is now accepted at Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Across two large studies we investigated gender differences in jealousy in response to rival attractiveness and dominance of the rival. We then performed a meta-analysis, this supported an effect of rival attractiveness but... [Read More]