Research

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OVERVIEW

PUBLICATIONS

New publication

Explaining uncertainty in women’s fertility preferences
Publication
People’s fertility preferences are often considered an important determinant of fertility. What is often neglected in studies of preferred fertility, is the uncertainty that…
Amke van Tintelen, Gert Stulp
Mar 13, 2024

New publication

It’s All About Timing: Exploring Different Temporal Resolutions for Analyzing Digital-Phenotyping Data
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The use of smartphones and wearable sensors to passively collect data on behavior has great potential for better understanding psychological well-being and mental disorders…
Langener, A. M., Stulp, G., Jacobson, N. C., Costanzo, A., Jagesar, R. R., Kas, M. J., & Bringmann, L. F.
Jan 19, 2024

New publication

FertNet: Process Data from the Social Networks and Fertility Survey
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A new patch (version 0.1.1) for the R-package FertNet was published on CRAN.

Stulp, G.
Jan 18, 2024

New publication

Predicting Mood Based on the Social Context Measured Through the Experience Sampling Method, Digital Phenotyping, and Social Networks
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Social interactions are essential for well-being. Therefore, researchers increasingly attempt to capture an individual’s social context to predict well-being, including…
Anna M. Langener, Laura F. Bringmann, Martien J. Kas & Gert Stulp
Jan 10, 2024

New publication

A data-driven approach shows that individuals’ characteristics are more important than their networks in predicting fertility preferences
Publication
People’s networks are considered key in explaining fertility outcomes—whether people want and have children. Existing research on social influences on fertility is limited…
Gert Stulp
Dec 20, 2023

New publication

Testing the combination of Feeling Safe and peer counselling against formulation-based cognitive behaviour therapy to promote psychological wellbeing in people with persecutory delusions: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (the Feeling Safe-NL Trial)
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Background: Persecutory delusions are strong threat beliefs about others’ negative intentions. They can have a major impact on patients’ day-to-day life. The Feeling Safe…
Eva Tolmeijer, Felicity Waite, Louise Isham, Laura Bringmann, Robin Timmers, Arjan van den Berg, Hanneke Schuurmans, Anton B. P. (Tonnie) Staring, Paul de Bont, Rob van Grunsven, Gert Stulp, Ben Wijnen, Mark van der Gaag, Daniel Freeman, David van den Berg
Oct 8, 2023

New publication

Describing the Dutch Social Networks and Fertility Study and how to process it
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Background: The social networks of people play a prominent role in theories on fertility. Investigating how networks shape behaviour is hard, because of the difficulty in…
Gert Stulp
Sep 8, 2023

New publication

Feedback About a Person’s Social Context - Personal Networks and Daily Social Interactions
Publication
The social context of a person, meaning their social relationships and daily social interactions, is an important factor for understanding their mental health. However…
Marie Stadel, Gert Stulp, Anna M. Langener, Timon Elmer, Marijtje A. J. van Duijn & Laura F. Bringmann
Aug 24, 2023

New publication

Simulating the evolution of height in the Netherlands in recent history
Publication
The Dutch have a remarkable history when it comes to height. From being one of the shortest European populations in the 19th Century, the Dutch grew some 20 cm and are…
Gert Stulp, Tyler Bonnel, Louise Barrett
Mar 23, 2023

New publication

FertNet: Process Data from the Social Networks and Fertility Survey
Publication
Processes data from The Social Networks and Fertility Survey, downloaded from https://dataarchive.lissdata.nl, including correcting respondent errors and transforming…
Gert Stulp
Mar 20, 2023

New publication

Capturing the Dynamics of the Social Environment Through Experience Sampling Methods, Passive Sensing, and Egocentric Networks: Scoping Review
Publication
Background: Social interactions are important for well-being, and therefore, researchers are increasingly attempting to capture people’s social environment. Many different…
Anna Langener, Gert Stulp, Martien Kas, Laura Bringmann
Mar 17, 2023

New publication

Crisissignaleringsplan monitoren en visualiseren
Publication
Patiënten met een borderline-persoonlijkheidsstoornis (BPS) zijn kwets- baar voor crises. Een crisissignaleringsplan (CSP) kan een crisis helpen voor- komen, maar voor het…
Massi Aoudjan, Elisa van Delft, Date van der Veen, Laura Bringmann, Gert Stulp, Barbara Montagne
Mar 10, 2023

New publication

Fertility preferences in China in the twenty-first century
Publication
There is continuing debate on how low China’s fertility has reached and whether China has fallen into the “low fertility trap”. This paper addresses this debate by…
Rui Lu, Anne Gauthier, Gert Stulp
Mar 7, 2023

New publication

Understanding Narratives from Demographic Survey Data: a Comparative Study with Multiple Neural Topic Models
Publication
Fertility intentions as verbalized in surveys are a poor predictor of actual fertility outcomes, the number of children people have. This can partly be explained by the…
Xiao Xu,Gert Stulp, Antal van der Bosch, Anne Gauthier
Nov 30, 2022

New publication

Quantifying the sources of heterogeneity of fertility preferences in China
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There are no unanimous estimates on fertility preferences in China; they vary considerably across studies. Understanding this cross-study heterogeneity of reported preferred…
Rui Lu,Gert Stulp, Anne Gauthier
Jul 20, 2022

New publication

Explaining the Associations of Education and Occupation with Childlessness: The Role of Desires and Expectations to Remain Childless
Publication
Although there are well-established relationships between women’s higher education, labour force participation (LFP), and occupation on the one hand and childlessness on the…
Renske Verweij, Gert Stulp, Melinda Mills, Harold Snieder
Nov 30, 2021

New publication

Balancing bias and burden in personal network studies
Publication
Personal network data is increasingly used to answer research questions about the interplay between individuals (i.e., egos) and their social environment (i.e., alters).…
Marie Stadel, Gert Stulp
Nov 16, 2021

New publication

Friends, family, and family friends: Predicting friendships of Dutch women
Publication
Friends are an important source of well-being but people differ in who they consider to be friends. With a unique quantitative test of such differences based on 17,650…
Vera L. Buijs, Gert Stulp
Nov 15, 2021

New publication

Do Data from Large Personal Networks Support Cultural Evolutionary Ideas about Kin and Fertility?
Publication
The fertility decline associated with economic development has been attributed to a host of interrelated causes including the rising costs of children with…
Gert Stulp, Louise Barrett
May 18, 2021

New publication

Collecting large personal networks in a representative sample of Dutch women
Publication
In this study we report on our experiences with collecting large personal network data (25 alters) from a representative sample of Dutch women. We made use of GENSI, a…
Gert Stulp
Nov 30, 2020

New publication

Effect of Self-reported Height on Occupational Rank Among Police Officers: Especially for Women it Pays to be Tall
Publication
This study among 725 male and 247 female police officers from The Netherlands examined the association between self-reported height and occupational rank from the…
Abraham P Buunk, Gert Stulp, Wilmar B. Schaufeli
Nov 29, 2020

New publication

ESMvis: A tool for visualizing individual Experience Sampling Method (ESM) data
Publication
Purpose: The experience sampling method (ESM) is used for intensive longitudinal time-series data collection during normal daily life. ESM data give information on momentary…
Laura F Bringmann, Date van der Veen, Marieke Wichers, Harriëtte Riese, Gert Stulp
Nov 20, 2020

New publication

Three facets of planning and postponement of parenthood in the Netherlands
Publication
Background: The age at parenthood has risen by about five years in the last decades in the Netherlands. Previous studies typically focused on the age at which people have…
Renske Verweij, Melinda Mills, Harold Snieder,Gert Stulp
Sep 1, 2020

New publication

Using Polygenic Scores in Social Science Research: Unraveling Childlessness
Publication
Biological, genetic, and socio-demographic factors are all important in explaining reproductive behavior, yet these factors are typically studied in isolation. In this…
Renkse M Verweij, Melinda C Mills, Gert Stulp, Ilja M Nolte, Nicola Barban, Felix C Tropf
Nov 12, 2019

New publication

How might life history theory contribute to life course theory?
Publication

A commentary on life course theory

Gert Stulp, Rebecca Sear
Apr 18, 2019

New publication

Identifying the limits to socioeconomic influences on human growth
Publication
Contemporary humans occupy the widest range of socioeconomic environments in their evolutionary history, and this has revealed unprecedented environmentally-induced…
Daniel J. Hruschka, Joseph V. Hackman, Gert Stulp
Dec 31, 2018

New publication

Evolution and Human Behaviour: Helping to Make Sense of Modern Life
Publication

Evolution and Human Behaviour: Helping to Make Sense of Modern Life

Louise Barrett, Gert Stulp
Dec 30, 2018

New publication

Visualizing Individual Dynamics: The Case of a Talented Adolescent
Publication
Research on talent and performance development has primarily focused on inter-individual differences. However, research suggests that performance and the underlying…
Joske K. Van der Sluis, Steffie van der Steen, Gert Stulp, Ruud J. R. Den Hartigh
May 17, 2018

New publication

Hidden heritability due to heterogeneity across seven populations
Publication
Meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies, which dominate genetic discovery, are based on data from diverse historical time periods and populations. Genetic scores…
Felix C. Tropf, S. Hong Lee, Renske M. Verweij, Gert Stulp, Peter J. van der Most, Ronald de Vlaming, Andrew Bakshi, Daniel A. Briley, Charles Rahal, Robert Hellpap, Anastasia N. Iliadou, Tõnu Esko, Andres Metspalu, Sarah E. Medland, Nicholas G. Martin, Nicola Barban, Harold Snieder, Matthew R. Robinson, Melinda C. Mills
Sep 11, 2017

New publication

ggplotgui: Create Ggplots via a Graphical User Interface.
Publication

ggplotgui: Create Ggplots via a Graphical User Interface. Easily explore data by creating ggplots through a (shiny-)GUI. R-code to recreate graph provided.

Gert Stulp
Jul 11, 2017

New publication

The Reproductive Ecology of Industrial Societies, Part I: Why Measuring Fertility Matters
Publication
Is fertility relevant to evolutionary analyses conducted in modern industrial societies? This question has been the subject of a highly contentious debate, beginning in the…
Gert Stulp, Rebecca Sear, Louise Barrett
Sep 26, 2016

New publication

The Reproductive Ecology of Industrial Societies, Part II: The Association between Wealth and Fertility
Publication
Studies of the association between wealth and fertility in industrial populations have a rich history in the evolutionary literature, and they have been used to argue both…
Gert Stulp, Rebecca Sear, Susan B. Schaffnit, Melinda C Mills, Louise Barrett
Sep 26, 2016

New publication

Big Man
Publication
The phrase ‘Big Man’ is used to signify both an important individual as well as one large in size, both historically and cross-culturally (B. J. Ellis 1992; Murray and…
Gert Stulp
Sep 20, 2016

New publication

Assortative mating for human height: A meta‐analysis
Publication
Objectives: The study of assortative mating for height has a rich history in human biology. Although the positive correlation between the stature of spouses has often been…
Gert Stulp, Mirre JP Simons, Sara Grasman, Thomas V Pollet
Sep 17, 2016

New publication

Revolution, reconciliation, integration: Is there a way to bring social and biological anthropology together?
Publication

In this paper, we review four books in the light of the divide between social and biological anthropology

Louise Barrett, Gert Stulp
May 16, 2016

New publication

Wealth, fertility and adaptive behaviour in industrial populations
Publication
The lack of association between wealth and fertility in contemporary industrialized populations has often been used to question the value of an evolutionary perspective on…
Gert Stulp, Louise Barrett
Mar 18, 2016

New publication

Evolutionary perspectives on human height variation
Publication
Human height is a highly variable trait, both within and between populations, has a high heritability, and influences the manner in which people behave and are treated in…
Gert Stulp, Louise Barrett
Jan 1, 2016

New publication

Finding your Soulmate: Homosexual and heterosexual age preferences in online dating
Publication
Heterosexual age preferences have been extensively studied by evolutionary psychologists, social psychologists, and demographers. Much less is known about such preferences…
Jane R. Conway, Nyala Noë, Gert Stulp, Thomas V Pollet
Oct 29, 2015

New publication

Evolved biocultural beings (who invented computers)
Publication

In this paper, we reply to Bryant (2015).

Louise Barrett, Thomas V Pollet,Gert Stulp
Jul 22, 2015

New publication

Human Fertility, Molecular Genetics, and Natural Selection in Modern Societies
Publication
Research on genetic influences on human fertility outcomes such as number of children ever born (NEB) or the age at first childbirth (AFB) has been solely based on twin and…
Felix C. Tropf, Gert Stulp, Nicola Barban, Peter M. Visscher, Jian Yang, Harold Snieder, Melinda C. Mills
Jun 3, 2015

New publication

The course (of) (or) history of life?
Publication

We note the similarities between sociology’s life course theory and biology’s life history theory.

Gert Stulp, Louise Barrett
May 14, 2015

New publication

The not-always-uniquely-predictive power of an evolutionary approach to understanding our not-so-computational nature
Publication

In this paper, we reply to Klasios (2014) and Stephen et al. (2014).

Gert Stulp, Thomas V Pollet, Louise Barrett
Apr 21, 2015

New publication

Body Height Preferences and Actual Dimorphism in Stature between Partners in Two Non-Western Societies (Hadza and Tsimane’)
Publication
Body height influences human mate preferences and choice. A typical finding in Western societies is that women prefer men who are taller than themselves and, equivalently…
Piotr Sorokowski, Agnieszka Sorokowska, Marina Butovskaya, Gert Stulp, Tomas Huanca, Bernhard Fink
Apr 1, 2015

New publication

Taking the aggravation out of data aggregation: A conceptual guide to dealing with statistical issues related to the pooling of individual‐level observational data
Publication
Field data often include multiple observations taken from the same individual. In order to avoid pseudoreplication, it is commonplace to aggregate data, generating a mean…
Thomas V Pollet, Gert Stulp, S. Peter Henzi,Louise Barrett
Mar 14, 2015

New publication

Human Height Is Positively Related to Interpersonal Dominance in Dyadic Interactions
Publication
Across cultures, taller stature is linked to increased social status, but the potential reasons why this should be are unclear. One potential explanation is that taller…
Gert Stulp, Abraham P. Buunk, Simon Verhulst, Thomas V. Pollet
Feb 26, 2015

New publication

Fertility Theory: Theory of Life History Evolution
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Variation in fertility patterns in relation to environmental factors and mortality schedules can be understood using evolutionary life history theory. In addition to…
Gert Stulp, Louise Barrett
Jan 1, 2015

New publication

Evolutionary Psychology
Publication
Although the name “evolutionary psychology” would appear both simple and self-explanatory, suggesting a rather straightforward application of evolutionary theory to both…
Louise Barrett, Gert Stulp
Jan 1, 2015

New publication

Parental Social Status and Intrasexual Competitiveness among Adolescents
Publication
A study among 1,881 adolescents (52.3% girls) with a mean age of 19.1 years examined the effects of parental social status upon intrasexual competitiveness. Whereas females…
Abraham P. Buunk, Gert Stulp, Johan Ormel
Dec 1, 2014

New publication

From computers to cultivation: reconceptualizing evolutionary psychology
Publication
Does evolutionary theorizing have a role in psychology? This is a more contentious issue than one might imagine, given that, as evolved creatures, the answer must surely be…
Louise Barrett, Thomas V. Pollet, Gert Stulp
Aug 12, 2014

New publication

Does natural selection favour taller stature among the tallest people on earth?
Publication
The Dutch are the tallest people on earth. Over the last 200 years, they have grown 20 cm in height: a rapid rate of increase that points to environmental causes. This…
Gert Stulp, Louise Barrett, Felix C Tropf, Melinda C Mills
May 15, 2014

New publication

Non‐linear associations between stature and mate choice characteristics for American men and their spouses
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Objectives: Although male height is positively associated with many aspects of mate quality, average height men attain higher reproductive success in US populations. We…
Gert Stulp, Melinda Mills, Thomas V. Pollet, Louise Barrett
May 12, 2014

New publication

Preferred and Actual Relative Height among Homosexual Male Partners Vary with Preferred Dominance and Sex Role
Publication
Previous research has shown repeatedly that human stature influences mate preferences and mate choice in heterosexuals. In general, it has been shown that tall men and…
Jaroslava Varella Valentova, Gert Stulp, Vít Třebický, Jan Havlíček
Jan 14, 2014

New publication

Binomial Tests and Randomization Approaches: The Case of US Presidential Candidate Height and Election Outcomes
Publication
Media reports often emphasize how the height of US presidential candidates plays an important role in election outcomes, with taller candidates winning an overwhelming…
Gert Stulp, Louise Barrett
Jan 1, 2014

New publication

Four more reasons why ethology matters: Tinbergen and the human sciences
Publication
Tinbergen’s paper on aims and methods in ethology is, quite rightly, a citation classic. Here, we would like to emphasize that, 50 years after its initial publication, it…
Gert Stulp, Louise Barrett
Dec 1, 2013

New publication

A statistical approach to distinguish telomere elongation from error in longitudinal datasets
Publication
Telomere length and the rate of telomere attrition vary between individuals and have been interpreted as the rate at which individuals have aged. The biology of telomeres…
Mirre J.P. Simons, Gert Stulp, Shinichi Nakagawa
Oct 4, 2013

New publication

Born to win? Testing the fighting hypothesis in realistic fights: left-handedness in the Ultimate Fighting Championship
Publication
Given the heritability of human left-handedness and its purported associations with fitness-lowering traits, the persistence of the minority of left-handedness in human…
Thomas V.Pollet, Gert Stulp, Ton G.G.Groothuis
Sep 5, 2013

New publication

The height of choosiness: mutual mate choice for stature results in suboptimal pair formation for both sexes
Publication
Mutual mate choice is prevalent in humans, where both males and females have a say in their choice of partner. How the choices made by one sex constrain the choice of the…
Gert Stulp, Abraham P. Buunk, Robert Kurzban, Thomas V. Pollet
May 1, 2013

New publication

Sex Differences in Risk Taking Behavior among Dutch Cyclists
Publication
The majority of research examining sex differences in risk-taking behavior focuses on overt physical risk measures in which failed risk attempts may result in serious injury…
Kelly D. Cobey, Gert Stulp, Freek Laan, Abraham P. Buunk, Thomas V. Pollet
Apr 1, 2013

New publication

The Golden Years: Men From The Forbes 400 Have Much Younger Wives When Remarrying Than the General US Population
Publication
A common stereotype is that richer men have wives who are substantially younger than themselves. However, some research suggests that large age gaps are actually more common…
Thomas V Pollet, Sophia E Pratt, Gracia Edwards, Gert Stulp
Mar 3, 2013

New publication

Women want taller men more than men want shorter women
Publication
Physical characteristics, such as height, play an important role in human mate preferences. Satisfaction with one’s own height and one’s partner height seem likely to be…
Gert Stulp, Abraham P. Buunk, Thomas V. Pollet
Feb 8, 2013

New publication

The pleasures and pitfalls of studying humans from a behavioral ecological perspective
Publication
We know it’s incredibly tedious, but we have to admit we agree with everything Nettle et al. (2013) say. Not only is that tedious, it also makes for a rather brief…
Louise Barrett, Gert Stulp
Jan 22, 2013

New publication

Are Human Mating Preferences with Respect to Height Reflected in Actual Pairings?
Publication
Pair formation, acquiring a mate to form a reproductive unit, is a complex process. Mating preferences are a step in this process. However, due to constraining factors such…
Gert Stulp, Abraham P. Buunk, Thomas V. Pollet, Daniel Nettle, Simon Verhulst
Jan 16, 2013

New publication

Tall claims? Sense and nonsense about the importance of height of US presidents
Publication
According to both the scientific literature and popular media, all one needs to win a US presidential election is to be taller than one’s opponent. Yet, such claims are…
Gert Stulp, Abraham P. Buunk, Simon Verhulst, Thomas V. Pollet
Oct 9, 2012

New publication

Increased aggression during human group contests when competitive ability is more similar
Publication
Theoretical analyses and empirical studies have revealed that conflict escalation is more likely when individuals are more similar in resource-holding potential (RHP).…
Gert Stulp, Tobias Kordsmeyer, Abraham P. Buunk , Simon Verhulst
Aug 15, 2012

New publication

Intralocus sexual conflict over human height
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Intralocus sexual conflict (IASC) occurs when a trait under selection in one sex constrains the other sex from achieving its sex-specific fitness optimum. Selection…
Gert Stulp, Bram Kuijper, Thomas V. Pollet, Abraham P. Buunk, Simon Verhulst
Aug 8, 2012

New publication

High and Mighty: Height Increases Authority in Professional Refereeing
Publication
Human male height is associated with mate choice and intra-sexual competition, and therefore potentially with reproductive success. A literature review (n = 18) on the…
Gert Stulp, Abraham P. Buunk, Simon Verhulst, Thomas V. Pollet
Jul 1, 2012

New publication

The effect of female height on reproductive success is negative in western populations, but more variable in non‐western populations
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Objective: In this article we examine the association between female height and reproductive success in a US sample and present a review of previous studies on this…
Gert Stulp, Simon Verhulst, Thomas V. Pollet, Abraham P. Buunk
Mar 12, 2012

New publication

A curvilinear effect of height on reproductive success in human males
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Human male height is associated with mate choice and intra-sexual competition, and therefore potentially with reproductive success. A literature review (n = 18) on the…
Gert Stulp, Thomas V. Pollet, Simon Verhulst, Abraham P. Buunk
Nov 15, 2011

New publication

Parental Height Differences Predict the Need for an Emergency Caesarean Section
Publication
More than 30% of all pregnancies in the UK require some form of assistance at delivery, with one of the more severe forms of assistance being an emergency Caesarean section…
Gert Stulp, Simon Verhulst, Thomas V. Pollet, Daniel Nettle, Abraham P. Buunk
Jun 29, 2011

New publication

Male facial width is associated with death by contact violence: narrow-faced males are more likely to die from contact violence
Publication
Male facial width-to-height ratio (bizygomatic width scaled for face height) is a testosterone-linked trait predictive of reactive aggression, exploitative behavior…
Michael Stirrat, Gert Stulp, Thomas V. Pollet
May 11, 2011

New publication

Western scrub-jays conceal auditory information when competitors can hear but cannot see
Publication
Western scrub-jays (Aphelocoma californica) engage in a variety of cache-protection strategies to reduce the chances of cache theft by conspeci- fics. Many of these…
Gert Stulp, Nathan J. Emery, Simon Verhulst, Nicola S. Clayton
Jul 15, 2009

New publication

Antonymy and Contrast Relations
Publication
In this paper we report on experiments to determine if antonymy is a good predictor of contrast, using 124 texts from the British National Corpus and the antonymy relations…
Jennifer Spenader, Gert Stulp
Jan 10, 2007
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TALKS

New talk

Life history theory and human behaviour
Talk

I gave a talk on life history theory and human behaviour for a group of talented biology PhD-students. The location was exciting!

Gert Stulp
Jan 17, 2024

New talk

Introducing the PreFer data challenge and its potential for fertility research
Talk
Fertility
Prediction
In a data challenge, (teams of) researchers using the same dataset try to best predict a particular outcome. In several fields like computer vision, natural language…
Gert Stulp
Dec 12, 2023

New talk

A data-driven approach shows that individuals’ characteristics are more important than their networks in predicting fertility preferences
Talk
Fertility
Networks
Prediction
People’s networks are considered key in explaining fertility outcomes–whether people want and have children. Existing research on social influences on fertility is limited…
Gert Stulp
Dec 4, 2023

New talk

A data-driven approach shows that individuals’ characteristics are more important than their networks in predicting fertility outcomes
Talk
Fertility
Networks
Prediction
Social influences on fertility behaviour are well-established. Individuals learn from, receive support from, and perceive pressure from people in their social network…
Gert Stulp
Nov 2, 2023

New talk

The secret sauce of data science
Talk
Prediction

In this five minute talk, I argue that a focus on (out-of-sample) prediction will benefit the social sciences.

Gert Stulp
Oct 4, 2023

New talk

This mess we’re in? Or how simulation and prediction will advance the social sciences
Talk
Fertility
Demography and sociology have produced a sophisticated body of work on fertility outcomes, i.e., whether, why, and when people have children. Such research has uncovered…
Gert Stulp
Sep 21, 2023

New talk

Collecting personal networks to study social influences on fertility behaviour
Talk
Fertility
Networks
People’s social environment is key in explaining their behaviour and preferences, including how many children people want and have. Unfortunately, obtaining information on…
Gert Stulp
Mar 2, 2023

New talk

Collecting personal networks to study social influences on fertility behaviour
Talk
Fertility
Networks
People’s social environment is key in explaining their behaviour and preferences, including how many children people want and have. Unfortunately, obtaining information on…
Gert Stulp
Feb 20, 2023

New talk

R workshop for teachers
Talk
R

R workshop for teachers

Gert Stulp
Nov 21, 2022

New talk

Using microsimulation, administrative data, and supercomputers to realistically model fertility behaviour: the case of fertility preferences and childlessness
Talk
Fertility
Simulation
Education is a strong driver of whether and when women become mothers. Many different and contradicting mechanisms have been proposed to explain why highly educated women…
Gert Stulp
Nov 9, 2022

New talk

This mess we’re in? Or how simulation and prediction will advance (demographic) research
Talk
Fertility
Prediction
Simulation
Demography and sociology have produced a sophisticated body of work on fertility outcomes, i.e., whether, why, and when people have children. Such research has uncovered…
Gert Stulp
Aug 23, 2022

New talk

Network Data Visualization in R
Talk
R
Networks
This workshop focuses on producing network-visualisation in R. We will use the packages, {ggplot2}, {tidygraph}, and {ggiraph} to create many different types of…
Gert Stulp
Jul 7, 2022

New talk

Opportunities for social influence on fertility behaviour among Dutch women
Talk
Fertility
Networks
Social influence has a prominent role in theories on fertility, implying that people’s reproductive decision-making is affected by the choices and behaviours of others.…
Gert Stulp
Jun 29, 2022

New talk

A microsimulation model of fertility shows that preferences cannot explain why highly educated women remain childless more often
Talk
Fertility
Simulation
Education is a strong driver of whether and when women become mothers. Many different and contradicting mechanisms have been proposed to explain why highly educated women…
Gert Stulp
Jun 24, 2022

New talk

This mess we’re in? Or how simulation and prediction will advance fertility research
Talk
Fertility
Prediction
Simulation
Demography and sociology have produced a sophisticated body of work on fertility outcomes, i.e., whether, why, and when people have children. Such research has uncovered…
Gert Stulp
Jun 15, 2022

New talk

R workshop for Graduate School of Medical Science
Talk
R
Visualisation

R workshop for Graduate School of Medical Science

Gert Stulp
Nov 25, 2021

New talk

Do Data from Large Personal Networks Support Cultural Evolutionary Ideas about Kin and Fertility?
Talk
Fertility
Networks
The fertility decline associated with economic development has been attributed to a host of interrelated causes including the rising costs of children with…
Gert Stulp
Nov 24, 2021

New talk

A roadmap on how to be as open as possible, and as closed as necessary
Talk
Career

In this talk, I describe a roadmap to help make the work of researchers as open as possible yet confirm to GDPR-standards.

Gert Stulp
Nov 15, 2021

New talk

De mens: geëvolueerd, maar ook evoluerend?
Talk
Evolution
Dat de mens onderdeel is van het dierenrijk, daar zijn de meesten het wel over eens. Maar in welke mate we de evolutionaire biologie kunnen gebruiken om menselijk gedrag te…
Gert Stulp
Nov 13, 2021

New talk

‘Above all else, show the data’ workshop
Talk
Visualisation
Visualizations are an essential tool in scientific communication. The programming language R allows making great visualizations. During the workshop, everyone simultaneously…
Gert Stulp
Nov 1, 2021

New talk

Growing up in times of crises. (Bio-)social and evolutionary reflections on the impact of adverse early life experiences on later life
Talk
Evolution

A discussion of the usefulness of evolutionary perspectives on development.

Gert Stulp
Aug 23, 2021

New talk

Do Data from Large Personal Networks Support Cultural Evolutionary Ideas about Kin and Fertility?
Talk
Fertility
Networks
The fertility decline associated with economic development has been attributed to a host of interrelated causes including the rising costs of children with…
Gert Stulp
Jul 11, 2021

New talk

Do Data from Large Personal Networks Support Cultural Evolutionary Ideas about Kin and Fertility?
Talk
Fertility
Networks
The fertility decline associated with economic development has been attributed to a host of interrelated causes including the rising costs of children with…
Gert Stulp
Jun 10, 2021

New talk

Methodological challenges and theoretical opportunities of collecting large personal networks in large samples
Talk
Networks
People’s social environment is key in explaining their behaviour and preferences. Unfortunately, obtaining information on the social environment, for instance through…
Gert Stulp
Apr 13, 2021

New talk

Simulating the evolution of height in the Netherlands in recent history
Talk
Height
Evolution
Simulation
The Dutch have a remarkable history when it comes to height. From being one of the shortest European populations in the 18th Century, the Dutch grew some 20 centimetres and…
Gert Stulp
Mar 24, 2021

New talk

Doing academic stuff builds your CV
Talk
Career

In this talk, I address some of the factors that I think were important for my CV.

Gert Stulp
Mar 12, 2021

New talk

6 rules of success that you shouldn’t listen to
Talk
Career

In this talk, I make the point that you shouldn’t listen to people giving advice. Nonetheless, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 6 rules of success also work well for Academia.

Gert Stulp
Dec 17, 2020

New talk

Evolutionary aspects of human height: a long story short
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Height
Evolution

During a conference on Perspectives on Human Body Height, I gave a talk about human heigh variation from an evolutionary perspective.

Gert Stulp
Jun 5, 2019

New talk

Family planning in the Netherlands: social networks and fertility
Talk
Fertility
Networks
Deciding whether and when to have children are important decisions in the lives of people. In this talk, I focus on how these decisions may be influenced by others.…
Gert Stulp
May 8, 2019

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Kinderen? Dat komt wel.
Talk
Fertility
Outreach
Werk vinden, carrière maken, een huis kopen… voor jongvolwassenen heeft het plannen van het gezinsleven vaak geen prioriteit. De biologische klok tikt door, maar de…
Gert Stulp
Apr 17, 2019

New talk

Family planning in the Netherlands: social networks and fertility
Talk
Fertility
Networks
Deciding whether and when to have children are important decisions in the lives of people. In this talk, I focus on how these decisions may be influenced by others.…
Gert Stulp
Apr 1, 2019

New talk

Easy visualisation in ggplot2
Talk
R

daylong ggplot2 workshop.

Gert Stulp
Mar 21, 2019

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Collecting personal networks
Talk
Networks

Collecting persional networks is not easy. I gave a presentation about it for the FLAG-group

Gert Stulp
Mar 12, 2019

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Hack the Gap 050
Talk
Hackaton

The municipality of Groningen organised a Hackaton: Hack the Gap - Equal educational opportunities

Gert Stulp
Mar 1, 2019

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Collecting large personal networks in a representative sample of Dutch women
Talk
Networks
Sociology relies heavily on the idea that social interactions with people in the network are important in changing minds and behaviours. Information on the personal networks…
Gert Stulp
Nov 28, 2018

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Planning and postponement of parenthood in the Netherlands
Talk
Fertility
The age at parenthood has risen by about five years in the last decades in the Netherlands. Previous studies typically focused on the age at which people have their first…
Gert Stulp
Nov 28, 2018

New talk

Go Paleo? Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour
Talk
Evolution

A talk on the usefulnuss and lack thereof of evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour.

Gert Stulp
Nov 13, 2018

New talk

Interdisciplinary PhDs
Talk
Career

A Young Academy Groningen talk about the usefulness (or lack thereof) of interdisciplinary research

Gert Stulp
Oct 18, 2018

New talk

Families, Lifecourse, and Ageing Group
Talk
Sociology

Sociology Groningen turned 80, and there was a huge festive event. I presented on the Families, Lifecourse, and Ageing Group

Gert Stulp
Oct 12, 2018

New talk

Applying evolutionary reasoning to humans
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Evolution

A debate on the use(fulness) of evolutionary theorising for understanding human behaviour

Gert Stulp
Sep 20, 2018

New talk

Gezinsvorming in Nederland: sociale invloeden op de kinderwens
Talk

For the Expert Meeting - Spitsuur van het leven, I gave a talk on social influences on fertility.

Gert Stulp
Jun 26, 2018

New talk

Collecting large personal networks in a representative sample of Dutch women
Talk
Networks
Sociology relies heavily on the idea that social interactions with people in the network are important in changing minds and behaviours. Information on the personal networks…
Gert Stulp
Jun 22, 2018

New talk

R workshop for university teachers
Talk
R

R workshop for teachers from the University of Groningen.

Gert Stulp
Jun 18, 2018

New talk

Collecting large personal networks in a representative sample of Dutch women
Talk
Networks
Sociology relies heavily on the idea that social interactions with people in the network are important in changing minds and behaviours. Information on the personal networks…
Gert Stulp
Jun 14, 2018

New talk

Evolved and evolving humans: The reproductive ecology of Industrial Societies
Talk
Evolution
Humans are a peculiar species. On the one hand, our species has evolved and is part of the tree of life just like any other species. An understanding of humans would most…
Gert Stulp
Jun 6, 2018

New talk

Easy visualisation in ggplot2
Talk
R

daylong ggplot2 workshop.

Gert Stulp
Apr 26, 2018

New talk

Mismatch or Misnomer
Talk
Evolution
The western world is very different from those environments in which our species has roamed around for most of the time. Biology 101 tells us that with rapidly changing…
Gert Stulp
Apr 5, 2018

New talk

Visualisation in ggplot2
Talk
R

ggplot2 workshop for the Open Science and Reproducibility event.

Gert Stulp
Mar 28, 2018

New talk

R workshop for university teachers
Talk
R

R workshop for teachers from the University of Groningen.

Gert Stulp
Jan 22, 2018

New talk

R workshop for municipality employees
Talk
R

R workshop for employees from the municipality in Groningen.

Gert Stulp
Jan 11, 2018

New talk

Easy visualisation in ggplot2
Talk
R

My first R workshop.

Gert Stulp
Oct 13, 2017
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