Prof. Thomas Pollet

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]

A quick post in the middle of the semester, to tell you that I am giving a talk at the university of Lincoln. You’ll notice that this is actually largely the same talk I gave at LSHTM in London (and at UFRN), which is also why I kept this link.... [Read More]

A very brief post to highlight a session which I gave last week to our 3rd year bachelor project students, slides can be found here here. Probably, I am not the best person to deliver such a session, as I wouldn’t qualify myself as being very theoretically rigorous. Then again,... [Read More]