Professor Thomas Pollet

Professor

School: Psychology

Dr. Thomas Pollet obtained his Ph.D. at Newcastle University (UK). He has since worked as Assistant professor at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) in the department of Evolutionary Social Psychology where he taught several courses on evolution and human behavior. He was also employed as Assistant Professor at the VU University Amsterdam (Social and Organizational Psychology) where he carried out teaching and research using an evolutionary framework. From November 2016 to July 2017 he worked for Universiteit Leiden. In July 2017, he took up a post as Associate Professor (Reader) with Northumbria University.

Campus Address

NB.165

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

My research focuses on understanding the wealth of social relationships people have (e.g., romantic relationships, friendships, family relationships) and understanding the role of individual differences (e.g., personality, height, hormones,…) for these social relationships from an interdisciplinary framework. To this end, I conduct survey, observational, and experimental studies, next to analysing secondary datasets. Furthermore, I am interested in (improving) methodology and statistics and frequently collaborate with others on diverse topics.

Further information can be found at https://tvpollet.github.io/

Key Publications

Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
An exploratory psychometric network analysis of the college adaptation questionnaire in a sample of first year students, Pollet, T., Adomaviciute, G., Haggag, N., Dodd, A., Roberts, S. 12 May 2026, In: PLoS One
In Search of a Professional Image: How Women Comedians Engage Gender in their Work, Cook, C., Callahan, J., Elsey, V., Pollet, T. 1 Mar 2026, In: Gender, Work & Organization
Little evidence for group differences in 2D:4D ratios based on sexual orientation after adjusting for publication bias, Shiramizu, V., Bartoš, F., Jones, B., Pollet, T. 1 Apr 2026, In: Hormones and Behavior
Optimising Cross-Institutional Comparisons in Large-Scale Student Surveys: An Illustration with the National Student Survey (NSS) in Russell Group Institutions, Grugan, M., Pollet, T. 4 Feb 2026
Revisiting the relationship between birth order and romantic jealousy: No support for an effect in four samples, Pollet, T., Fitzpatrick, B., Meziani, S., Pashley, E., Šefčíková, E. 1 Jun 2026, In: Personality and Individual Differences
Studying the Best Can Mislead: Selection Bias in Expertise Research, Bilalic, M., Vaci, N., Honekopp, J., Pollet, T. 11 Sep 2026, In: Perspectives on Psychological Science
Acting gender: Actors’ experiences of gender role conformity and hopes for their characters, Cook, C., Pollet, T., Callahan, J. 1 Oct 2025, In: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
An Index of Her Own: An Investigation of the Proportion of Women Indexed in Evolutionary Psychology Textbooks, Pollet, T., Bovet, J., Renner, E., Barrett, L. 13 Nov 2025, In: Human Ethology
Comparing Foodie Calls in Poland, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Registered Replication Report, Orhan, M., Collison, B., Howell, J., Kowal, M., Pollet, T. 1 Apr 2025, In: Psychological Reports
HEXACO Personality Factors and their Associations with Facebook use and Facebook Network Characteristics, Brown, R., Roberts, S., Pollet, T. 1 Jun 2025, In: Psychological Reports