Professor Thomas Pollet

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/

• Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
• 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. 30 Jan 2026, In: Personality and Individual Differences
• 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
• In Search of a Professional Image: How Women Comedians Engage Gender in their Work, Cook, C., Callahan, J., Elsey, V., Pollet, T. 27 Nov 2025, In: Gender, Work & Organization
• Testing the Congruency Hypothesis using meta-analysis: Are changes in oral contraceptive use correlated with partnered women’s sexual satisfaction?, Shiramizu, V., Stern, J., Bartoš, F., Rafiee, Y., Pollet, T., Jones, B. 1 Apr 2025, In: Hormones and Behavior
• An exploratory factor analysis of the Nerdy Personality Attributes Scale in a sample of self-identified nerds/geeks, Finister, C., Pollet, T., Neave, N. 1 Oct 2024, In: The Social Science Journal
• An exploratory psychometric network analysis of loneliness scales in a sample of older adults, Thompson, A., Pollet, T. 1 Feb 2024, In: Current Psychology

Psychology PhD July 01 2009