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The Devil You Don’t Know: Threat and Uncertainty in Complex Environments
During this talk I will present a series of studies designed to explore the effects of threat on cognition and emotion in complex environments. Some of these studies examine real world experience, including phenomenological analyses of life-threatening events and longitudinal studies on military leadership training programmes. Other studies involve lab-based experiments in which we use virtual reality and computational modelling to understand the cognitive underpinnings of complex decision-making under threat. Together this body of work sheds light on how dangerous environments change the way we cope with complexity and suggests ways in which training can prepare us to do so.
Date:
27 October 2025, 15:00
Venue:
Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Speaker:
Professor Cade McCall (University of York)
Organising department:
Department of Experimental Psychology
Organisers:
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford),
Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
hod.office@psy.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series
Booking required?:
Not required
Booking email:
hod.office@psy.ox.ac.uk
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Anne-Marie Honeyman-Tafa
