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Curriculum Vitae: Thomas V. Pollet (17-11-1981, Wilrijk (B))
19/12/2007
Thomas V. Pollet
Centre for Behaviour and Evolution,
Newcastle University,
Henry Wellcome Building for Neuro-ecology Framlington Place, NE2 4HH,
Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Tel: 07903501168
Email: T.V.Pollet@ncl.ac.uk
Web: http://www.students.ncl.ac.uk/t.v.pollet
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Personal information: Nationality: Belgian
Date of birth: 17-11-1981
Place of birth: Wilrijk, Belgium
Education: 2005-2008: Newcastle University
Ph.D. in Evolutionary Psychology
Thesis: ‘Tests of Predictions from Kin Selection Theory, Life History Theory and the Evolutionary Psychology of mate choice in Modern Societies’
Supervisors: Dr. D. Nettle, Dr. J. Lazarus
2004-2005: University of Liverpool
M.Sc. in Evolutionary Psychology (Distinction)[1]
Thesis: ‘Childlessness and Genetic Relatedness: Their
Influence on Sibling Ties in a Post-Industrial Society'
Supervisor: Dr. J.E. Lycett
2002-2004: University of Ghent (Belgium)
Licentiate in Sociology (Great Distinction)
(Equivalent to Master degree)
Thesis: ‘An interdisciplinary model for conspicuous
consumption’ (in Dutch)
Supervisor: Dr. K. Thienpont
Extracurricular course: Sociobiology (80%)
2000-2002: University of Antwerp
Candidature in Sociology (Distinction)
Extracurricular courses: General Biology (70%) and Ethology (70%)
Professional Experience: - Ad hoc reviewer for Human Nature and Journal of Evolutionary Psychology.
- Teaching assistant for Methods in Psychology (Dr. P. Cornelissen, Dr. G. Roberts, Dr. G. Jordan), Methods II in Psychology (Dr. J. Harvey, Dr. Q. Vuong) and Statistics I (Dr. M. Cox) at Newcastle University
- Researcher, Robin I.M. Dunbar (University of Liverpool)
- Researcher, CRM (Organization for retired self-employers, Belgium)
- Volunteer/Administration, ASAB conference, (Newcastle University)
- General administration, HesseNoordNatie (Port of Antwerp, Belgium)
- Skilled at multivariate statistics (SPSS; AMOS; Minitab), programming of experiments (Inquisit), designing surveys,… .
- Fluent in English and Dutch. Good knowledge of French. Passive knowledge of German.
Research Publications:
Submitted/in preparation - Pollet, T.V. & Nettle, D. (submitted), Dead or alive?
Knowledge about a sibling’s death varies by genetic relatedness in a Modern society.
- Pollet, T.V. & Nettle, D. (submitted),
Birth order and family relationships in adult life: Firstborns report better sibling relationships than laterborns.
- Pollet, T.V. & Nettle, D. (in preparation), Income, height and self-evaluated attractiveness: number of partners and extramarital relationships in a Chinese sample.
- Pollet, T.V. & Nettle, D. (in preparation), The outgroup male bias: Differential biases against male and female outgroup members as marriage partners.
- Pollet, T.V., Nettle, D. & Nelissen M. (in preparation),
Lineage based differences in grandparental investment: Estimates from a large British cohort study
- Pollet, T.V. & Nettle, D. (in preparation),
Cultural success and reproductive success for Academy and Razzie award nominees.
- Kuppens T., et al. (in preparation). Anger and implicit judgement of outgroups (working title).
- Kiyonari, T. et al. (in preparation). Second order punishment and reward behaviour in a public goods game versus a cooperation game (working title).
2008/in press
- Pollet, T.V. & Nettle, D. (in press), Driving a hard
bargain: Sex ratio and male marriage success in a historical U.S. population, 1910. Biology Letters
- Pollet, T.V. & Dunbar, R.I.M. (in press), Childlessness predicts helping of nieces and nephews in United States, 1910. Journal of Biosocial Science
- Pollet, T.V. & Nettle, D. (in press), Taller women do better in a stressed environment: Height and reproductive success in rural Guatemalan women. American Journal of Human Biology
2007 - Pollet, T.V., Nettle, D. & Nelissen, M. (2007),
Maternal grandmothers do go the extra mile: factoring distance and lineage into differential investment in grandchildren. Evolutionary Psychology, 5(4), 832-843.
- Pollet, T.V. & Nettle, D. (2007), Birth order and face-to-face contact with a sibling: Firstborns have more contact than laterborns. Personality and Individual Differences, 43, 1796-1806.
- Pollet, T.V. (2007), Genetic relatedness and
sibling relationship characteristics in a modern society.
Evolution and Human Behavior, 28 (3), 176-185.
2006 - Pollet, T.V., Nettle, D. & Nelissen, M. (2006),
Contact frequencies between grandparents and grandchildren in a modern society: Estimates of the impact of paternity uncertainty. Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology, 4 (3-4), 203-214.
- Pollet, T.V., Kuppens, T. & Dunbar, R.I.M. (2006),
When nieces and nephews become important:
Differences between childless women and mothers in
relationships with nieces and nephews. Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology, 4 (2), 83-93.
Other publications &
Media coverage: - comment on evolutionary psychology in a Belgian news paper (De Tijd, 21-03-2006)
- Pollet, T.V. & Rosenkranz, P. (in press). Review of ‘The God Delusion’ by Richard Dawkins, Ideograms: the Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies.
- comment on research on the evolution of colour preferences in a Belgian news paper (De Standaard, 23-08-07)
- My research has been covered in the British press (e.g. The Daily Telegraph; BBC news) and in the international press (e.g. The Economist; The Times of India; Psychologie Magazine).
Presentations (Talks):
2008
2007 - ‘Biological markets and marriage success in
USA, 1910.’
(with D. Nettle)
Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) meeting, Newcastle University
- ‘Maternal Height as a Determinant for Fertility, Pregnancy Outcome and Infant Survival in Rural Guatemala’.
(with D. Nettle)
Postgraduate meeting for students in Biomedicine, Newcastle University
- ‘Taller women do better in a stressed environment: Height and reproductive success in rural Guatemalan women’
(with D. Nettle)
London Evolutionary Research Network (LERN) Conference, Natural History Museum, London
- ‘Genetic relatedness and social dynamics
between adult siblings’
(with D. Nettle)
Human Behaviour and Evolution Society (HBES), College of William and Mary, Virginia & International Society for Human Ethology (ISHE), Max Planck institute, Andechs (Germany) & Evolution and Behaviour Research Group, Newcastle University
- ‘On the evolution of intergroup conflict and
warfare’
Course of Bioanthropology (invited talk), University of Antwerp (Belgium).
- ‘Anger and male coalitional psychology’
(with D. Nettle)
Seminar at Division of Psychology, Newcastle University
2006 - ‘The proximal function of anger for ingroup-
outgroup behaviour’
(with A. Lyons & D. Nettle)
European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (EAESP) meeting, University of Kent & Seminar at Division of Psychology, Newcastle University
- ‘Contact frequencies between grandparents and
grandchildren: Estimates of the impact of
paternity uncertainty’
(with D. Nettle & M. Nelissen)
ICEG Workshop, University of Louvain (Belgium)
- ‘On the evolution of intergroup conflict and
warfare’
Course of Bioanthropology (invited talk), University of Antwerp (Belgium).
- ‘The proximal function of anger for ingroup-
outgroup behaviour in human males’
(with A. Lyons, D. Nettle)
European Meeting for Postgraduate Students in
Evolutionary Biology (EMPSEB), University of St.
Andrews
2005 - ‘Childlessness and material, social and kin
relations’
Evolutionary Psychology research group, University of Liverpool.
2004 - ‘Sexual selection as a mechanism for
conspicuous consumption’
(with K. Thienpont)
International Society for Human Ethology (ISHE), Ghent (Belgium)
Presentations (Poster):
2007 - ‘Genetic relatedness and social dynamics
between adult siblings ’
(with D. Nettle)
Evolution and Human Behaviour Conference, London School of Economics
- ‘Birth order and face-to-face contact with a
sibling: Firstborns have more contact than laterborns’
(with D. Nettle)
Human Behaviour and Evolution Society (HBES), College of William and Mary, Virginia & Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University
2006 - ‘Anger promotes implicit ethnic ingroup
favouritism in men but not in women’
(with D. Nettle & A. Lyons)
Human Behaviour and Evolution Society (HBES) meeting, Philadelphia & Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University
2005 - ‘Childlessness and financial transfers between
siblings’
Centre for the Evolutionary Analysis of Cultural Behaviour (CEACB) meeting on Altruism, University of Sussex.
Conference attendance: broad variety of conferences/summer schools/meetings attended in fields of biology (HBES, ASAB, PSGB, EHBE, ISHE, EMPSEB, LERN) and social sciences (EAESP, CEACB).
Memberships: HBES, EAESP, ISHE, ICEG, Research group in
Behavioural Biology (University of Antwerp).
Collaborators: Charlotte De Backer, Carolyn Declerq, Robin I.M. Dunbar, Mark Nelissen, Daniel Nettle, Toko Kiyonari, Toon Kuppens, John Skelhorn.
Research interests: I have a very diverse range of interests:
Evolutionary Psychology; Life history theory; Ethology; Kin selection theory; Mate choice; Paternity uncertainty; Individual Differences (Height, Birth Order,…); Prejudice; Family ties; Childlessness; Demography…