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Andrew G. Thomas

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Andrew G. Thomas

@DrThomasAG

Associate Professor of Psychology and Psychotherapist. I research sex differences, mating psychology, and intersexual conflict from an evolutionary perspective.

Swansea, Wales

Joined January 2017

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Andrew G. Thomas
@DrThomasAG
Aug 1, 2025
Here’s a brief thread 🧵on our latest paper: “Sexual partner number and distribution over time affect long-term partner evaluation: evidence from 11 countries across 5 continents” out now in Scientific Reports (nature.com/articles/s4159…) [1/16]
Sexual partner number and distribution over time affect long-term partner evaluation: evidence from...
From nature.com
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Andrew G. Thomas
@DrThomasAG
Jul 18, 2023
"Mansplaining" is an unhelpful term born from a clash of communication styles. People who use the label often push the narrative that men are intentionally patronising towards women. (Psst...some are...don't be that guy!) But such a hard conclusion also disregards how men
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Andrew G. Thomas
@DrThomasAG
Oct 27, 2019
Should have brought my umbrella @SteveStuWill
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Andrew G. Thomas
@DrThomasAG
Oct 9, 2023
Recently, I asked ~4,000 people if it would be a good thing or a bad thing if their partner started being nicer to them after losing weight. The results? Twice as many men (86%) said it would be a good thing than women (43%) - A medium sized sex difference. "Twitter poll T&Cs"
Andrew G. Thomas
@DrThomasAG
Oct 7, 2023
If you lost weight and your partner started being nicer to you, this would be... (+ what's your sex?)
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Andrew G. Thomas
@DrThomasAG
Feb 12, 2024
A quick long post about this... spicy... essay calling for researchers to forget about incel mental health and just be feminists instead. This is what happens when you don't do impartial, well-conducted, scientifically-grounded primary research on incels. I counted 17
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Andrew G. Thomas
@DrThomasAG
Jan 3, 2023
I've met many psychologists so resistant to biological explanations of behaviour that I wonder why they didn't just become sociologists.
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Andrew G. Thomas
@DrThomasAG
Jul 18, 2023
Replying to @DrThomasAG
A lot of those disagreeing with this take share something in common! Also, for more thoughts in my head check out my blog "Darwin Does Dating": psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/darwin…
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Andrew G. Thomas
@DrThomasAG
Dec 14, 2024
🚨A thread about our latest study; hot off the pre-print press🚨(1/16) "How does "body count" affect attractiveness - Evidence from 11 countries across 5 continents" Pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/psya…
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Andrew G. Thomas
@DrThomasAG
Aug 4, 2020
1992: Developmental psychologists demonstrate that 5 month old baby humans (bereft of ideological bias) understand basic addition and subtraction (1+1... 2+1...). 2020: Twitter demonstrates that fully grown adult humans (flush with ideological bias) don't. researchgate.net/publication/21…
Andrew G. Thomas
@DrThomasAG
Jun 29, 2023
How many people suffer in their singlehood? In my largest Twitter poll ever, 2600 answered the question: "Have you ever felt a 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 state of unhappiness, uneasiness, and discontent about your singlehood?" The answer? More than half of men
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Andrew G. Thomas
@DrThomasAG
Sep 2, 2025
Men tend to overestimate how important physical attractiveness and financial prospects are to women and underestimate the important of more interpersonal traits. The latter is particularly downplayed by incels. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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Andrew G. Thomas
@DrThomasAG
Feb 13, 2024
Some men avoid mental health support because they worry it'll change how women perceive them. Is that worry grounded in reality? Maybe. Results of last week's poll. Over 1,700 people answered 'true' or 'false' to the claim that: "Men seeking mental health support
Andrew G. Thomas
@DrThomasAG
Feb 2, 2024
Men seeking mental health support (counselling, therapy) is a turn off for women. True or false (+what's your sex?)
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Andrew G. Thomas
@DrThomasAG
Aug 13, 2023
Not so accurate take here. But greater male variability in, well, almost everything, is well established in nature and important to know! Don't live your life blind to the left-hand side of the distribution. There's a lot of suffering there. There are more male super geniuses,
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Andrew G. Thomas
@DrThomasAG
Feb 27, 2025
Failure in relationships is one of the biggest predictors of male suicide.
Immy Harrison
@immyyharrison
Feb 27, 2025
“Divorce was the marital status associated with the greatest increased risk of suicide in this study.” link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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