Cade McCall
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, EDI Committee

University roles

• Executive Committee, YorRobots

Research

Overview

Threat and cognition 

Social interaction

Human interactions with autonomous systems

Projects

My current research examines how acute threat affects cognition and behaviour. Here we use a wide range of methods from qualitative interviews with individuals about life threatening experiences, to laboratory-based experiments using immersive virtual environments. The key goal of this research is to better understand who performs optimally under threat, and how they do so.  

My lab also studies human interactions with autonomous systems. Our goal it to better understand how autonomous systems can be designed to interact safely and efficiently with humans. 

Research group(s)

The Lifelike Lab

Grants

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

Supervision

• Aaron Laycock
• Yuka Spender 
• Bronte McKeown
• Delali Konu
• 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