Cade McCall
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)

Profile

Biography

• 2010 – 2016: Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Post-doc and Research Group Leader
• 2003 – 2009: University of California, Santa Barbara, PhD in Social Psychology
• 2001 - 2003: New School for Social Research, MA in Psychology
• 1992 – 1996: Macalester College, BA in English Literature

Departmental roles

• Chair, Communications Committee

University roles

• Executive Committee, YorRobots
• Board of Studies, Careers Department 

Research

Overview

Affect and Social Interaction in Virtual Environments

Projects

The goal of my research is to describe how affect and behavior emerge and unfold in the midst of social interactions and other emotionally loaded experiences. I use virtual reality and other digital technologies to conduct this work and to explore, further, the experience of emotions through technologically mediated interactions. 

• Proxemics: I study on how attitudes and motivation are implicitly expressed during social interactions through nonverbal approach and avoidance. I examine how subtle differences in gaze and proximity express positive or negative reactions to others, and predict more explicit behaviors such as aggression or helping.
• The dynamics of threat: I use virtual environments to study the waxing and waning of emotional behavior in terms of subjective experience, peripheral physiology, and movement behavior.

Research group(s)

The Lifelike Lab

Grants

• ESRC Grant 'Face identification in realistic contexts', with Markus Bindemann, Kent:  2019-2022

Supervision

• Bronte McKeown
• Delali Konu
• Aaron Laycock
• Maximillian Croissant (IGGI)
• Emma Sullivan (secondary)
• Holly Hendry (Computer Science, secondary)

Publications

Selected publications

See York Research Database or Google Scholar. 

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Psychology in Society
• Fear and Survival