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I’m Gert Stulp. I like:

cats
visualisations in R
Gary Larson
Arnold Schwarzenegger (sort of)

Research

Prediction in the social sciences

How a focus on prediction can lead to better understanding.

Social networks

Humans are a social species, being influenced by the thoughts and behaviours of people in their networks. Characterising these networks, and getting data on them, is…

Studying the number of children people want and have

There is huge variation in the number of children people (would like to) have over time / across the globe / within countries. I try to study the determinants of this…

Visualisation in research

Visualisation is key in any project involving datapoints. Yet the reader is not ‘showered in graphical displays’ [Anscombe, 1973]. I am an active promotor of the use of…

Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour

Humans are a weird species.

Evolutionary perspectives on human height variation

My research in the past has focussed on variation in human height. In particular, how evolutionary processes have been and are shaping variation in stature. I tried to…

Latest content

Exploring the limits of predicting births using survey and administrative data

Predicting life outcomes is important because it can inform theory and enable targeted interventions. Unlike fields like climate science or medicine, social science…

Examining the relationships between education, coresidential unions, and the fertility gap by simulating the reproductive life courses of Dutch women

Background: Couples in Europe have fewer children than they intend to, resulting in a gap between intended family size and completed fertility. This is partly because…

Rolf Granholm, Anne Gauthier, Gert Stulp

Developing a qualitative and quantitative ambulatory assessment-based feedback system within cognitive behavioural interventions for people with persecutory beliefs

Background: Although the application of self-monitoring (ambulatory assessment) and visual feedback in psychological interventions has yielded promising results, there are…

Laura F. Bringmann, Eva Tolmeijer, Maarten Piot, Merijn Mestdagh, Stijn Verdonck, Gert Stulp, Felicity Waite, Louise Isham, Anton P.B. Staring, Daniel Freeman, David van den Berg