The Importance of Virtual Learning

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1 CADE MCCALL, Ph.D. Department of Social Neuroscience Max Planck Institute for Human Cognition and Brain Sciences Stephanstrasse 1A Leipzig, Germany EDUCATION University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California) Ph.D. in Social Psychology, September 2009 Dissertation: The Plasticity of Attitude Embodiment Advisor: Jim Blascovich Graduate Faculty, New School University (New York, New York) M.A. in Psychology, May 2003 Thesis: The Malleability of Men s Gender Self Concepts Advisor: Nilanjana Dasgupta Macalester College (St. Paul, Minnesota) B.A. in English, May 1996 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Max Planck Institute for Human and Cognitive Brain Sciences...8/10 to present Research Group Leader, Virtual Reality Lab o Developed the Virtual Reality Wunderkammer, a suite of virtual worlds for studying affect, cognition, psychophysiology, and behavior. o Oversaw the use of the Wunderkammer and the analysis of its data as part of the ReSource Project, a longitudinal study on mental training. Staff Researcher, Department of Social Neuroscience o Built a virtual reality laboratory. o Developed proxemic imaging, a novel method for analyzing nonverbal behavior. University of California, Santa Barbara. 9/09 to 8/10 Postdoctoral scholar, Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies o Conducted research on the interactional efficacy of advanced digital agents. o Conducted research on the integration of virtual environments and fmri. Lab director for the Research Center for Virtual Environments and Behavior

2 University of California, Santa Barbara. 9/03 to 9/09 Graduate student research assistant for the following projects: o Transformed social interaction in immersive virtual reality (funded by NSF- Human Social Dynamics). o Using virtual reality to test communication strategies for genomic concepts (funded by a subcontract with the NIH-National Human Genome Research Institute). o An immersive virtual environment approach to measuring compassion and altruism (funded by Case Western Reserve). Graduate student teaching assistant for the following courses: o Psychology I o Social Psychology o Introduction to virtual environments (an NSF sponsored summer institute ) University of California, San Francisco. 5/97 to 6/01 Public health research assistant o Tuberculosis Prevention Project and Follow-up Study (funded by NIH) o Construction Worker Health Project (funded by California OSHA) PUBLICATIONS Hildebrandt, L., McCall, C., Engen, H., & Singer, T. (in press). Spontaneous Regulation of Sympathetic and Subjectively Rated Levels of Arousal during Continuous Threat is Predicted by Resilience, Heart Rate Variability, and Cognitive Flexibility. Psychophysiology. McCall, C. (in press). Mapping Social Interactions: The Science of Proxemics. In M. Wöhr Sören Krach (Eds.), Social Behavior from Rodents to Humans: Neural Foundations and Clinical Implications. Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences. McCall, C., Hildebrandt, L. K., Hartmann, R., Baczkowski, B. M., & Singer, T. (2016). Introducing the Wunderkammer as a tool for emotion research: Unconstrained gaze and movement patterns in three emotionally evocative virtual worlds. Computers in Human Behavior, 59, McCall, C., Hildebrandt, L., Bornemann, B., & Singer, T. (2015). Physiophenomenology in Retrospect: Memory Reliably Reflects Physiological Arousal During a Prior Threatening Experience. Consciousness and Cognition, 38, McCall, C., & Singer, T. (2015). Facing Off with Unfair Others: Introducing Proxemic Imaging as an Implicit Measure of Approach and Avoidance during Social Interaction, PLoS ONE.

3 McCall, C., Steinbeis, N., & Singer, T. (2014). Compassion Meditators Show Less Anger, Less Punishment and More Compensation of Victims in Response to Fairness Violations, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 8: 424. McCall, C. (2013). Social Cognition in the Cyborg Age: Embodiment and the Internet. Psychological Inquiry, 24, Deiglmayr, A., Paus, E., McCall, C., Mullins, D., Berthold, K., Wittwer, J, Krämer, N, & Rummel, N. (2013). Toward an integration of the learning and communication perspectives in computer-supported instructional communication. Journal of Media Psychology, 24, McCall, C. & Singer, T. (2013). Empathy and the brain. In Baron-Cohen, Tager-Flusberg, and Lombardo (Eds.) Understanding Other Minds, 3 rd Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Blascovich, J. & McCall, C. (2013). Social influence in virtual environments. In K. E. Dill (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Media Psychology (pp ). Oxford: Oxford University Press. McCall, C. (2012). Brooklynites, bike accidents, and the science of compassion. Huffington Post. McCall, C. & Singer, T. (2012). The animal and human neuroendocrinology of social cognition, motivation and behavior. Nature Neuroscience, 15, Ma-Kellams, C., Blascovich, J., & McCall, C. (2012). Culture and the body: East West differences in visceral perception. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102, Kane, H., McCall, C., Collins, N., & Blascovich, J.B. (2012). Mere presence is not enough: Responsive support in a virtual world. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48(1), McCall, C., Tipper, C., Blascovich, J., & Grafton, S.T. (2011). Attitudes Trigger Motor Behavior Through Conditioned Associations: Neural and Behavioral Evidence. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 7(7), McCall, C. (2010). The plasticity of attitude embodiment. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering. Vol. 70 (11-B) Blascovich, J., & McCall, C. (2010). Attitudes in virtual reality. In Forgas, J. P., Cooper, J., Crano, W.D. (Eds.), The psychology of attitudes and attitude change (pp ). New York: Psychology Press. Stel, M., Blascovich, J., McCall, C., Mastop, J., Van Baaren, R.B., & Vonk, R. (2010). Mimicking disliked others: Effects of a priori liking on the mimicry-liking link. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, Stel, M., Van Baaren, R., Blascovich, J., McCall, C., Pollmann, M.M.H., van Leeuwen, Mastop, J., & Vonk, R. (2010). Effects of a priori liking on the elicitation of mimicry. Experimental Psychology, 57, McCall, C., Bunyan, D.P., Bailenson, J.B., Blascovich, J., & Beall, A. (2009). Leveraging Collaborative Virtual Environment Technology for Inter-Population Research on

4 Persuasion in a Classroom Setting. PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 18, Kaphingst, K. A., Persky, S., McCall, C., Lachance, C., Beall, A. C., & Blascovich, J. (2009) Testing the effects of educational strategies on comprehension of a genomic concept using virtual reality technology. Patient Education and Counseling, 77, McCall, C. & Blascovich, J. (2009) How, when, and why to use digital experimental virtual environments to study social behavior. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 3: McCall, C., Blascovich, J., Young, A, Persky, S. (2009) Using immersive virtual environments to measure proxemic behavior and to predict aggression. Social Influence, 4, Persky, S., Kaphingst, K. A., McCall, C., Lachance, C., Beall, A. C., & Blascovich, J. (2009) Presence relates to distinct outcomes in two virtual environments employing different learning modalities. Cyberpsychology and Behavior, 12, Bailenson, J.N., Davies, A., Beall. A.C., Blascovich, J., Guadagno, R. E., & McCall, C. (2008). The effects of witness viewpoint distance, angle, and choice on eyewitness accuracy in police lineups conducted in immersive virtual environments. PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 17(3), Gillath, O., McCall, C.A., Shaver, P., Blascovich J.B. (2008) Reactions to a needy virtual person: Using an immersive virtual environment to measure prosocial tendencies. Media Psychology, 11, McCall, C. (2008) Vizard Teacher in a Book: A beginner s guide to programming virtual worlds. Santa Barbara: Worldviz (available at McCall, C. & Dasgupta N. (2007). The malleability of men s gender self-concept. Self and Identity, 6. Guadagno, R.E., Blascovich, J., Bailenson, J.N., McCall, C. (2007). Virtual humans and persuasion: The effects of agency and behavioral realism. Media Psychology, 10, Gabriel, R.H., Klein, S.B. & McCall, C.A. (2007). Emotional reactions to human faces in a prosopagnosia patient. Cognition and Emotion,22, Gillen M., Kools S., McCall C., Sum J., Moulden K. (2004). Construction managers perceptions of construction safety practices in small and large firms: A qualitative investigation. Work: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment and Rehabilitation, 23, Gillen M., Kools S., Sum J., McCall C., & Moulden K. (2004). Construction workers perceptions of management safety practices: a qualitative investigation. Work: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment and Rehabilitation, 23, Duong T., Cruz E., Rodas A., McCall C., Menendez E., Carmody E., Tulsky J., & White M. (2003). Strategies for effective education in a jail setting: the tuberculosis prevention project, Health Promotion Practice, 4,

5 INVITED TALKS, COLLOQUIA AND WORKSHOPS McCall, C. (2016, January). Virtual ethology: using virtual reality to study human affect and social behavior. Talk presented at the School of Business and Economics, Aachen University, Germany. McCall, C. (2015, December). Virtual ethology: using virtual reality to study human affect and social behavior. Talk presented at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Lübeck, Germany. McCall, C. (2015, November). Virtuality and the Brain. Keynote talk at the Mercedes-Benz Future Talk III: Going Virtual The Automotive Experience of the Future, Berlin, Germany. McCall, C. (2015, October). Talk presented at the Technische Universität München as part of TEDxTUM 2015: Facets, Munich, Germany. McCall, C. (2015, July). Proxemic Imaging: A Method for Visualizing Nonverbal Behavior during Social Interactions. Talk presented at the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Geneva, Switzerland. McCall, C. (2015, June). Social Interaction. Lecture delivered at the International Max Planck Research School on Neuroscience of Communication: Function, Structure and Plasticity, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany. McCall, C. (2015, June). The ReSource Project: Fear, Trust, and the Effects of Mental Training. Lecture presented at Fear and Trust in Self and Society, the 2015 Mind and Life Summer Research Institute, Garrison, New York, USA. McCall, C. (2014, September). Recent Developments in Using Immersive Virtual Reality to Study Affect, Cognition, and Behavior. Institute Colloquium of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany. McCall, C. (2014, September). Measuring affect, behavior, physiology and subjective experience in immersive virtual environments. Talk presented at the London Virtual Social Interaction Workshop, University College, London, UK. McCall, C. (2014, May). Proxemic Imaging of Nonverbal Behavior during Social Interactions: Facing Off with Unfair Others. Talk to be presented at the Perspectives and Future Directions in Social Neuroscience Symposium, Marburg, Germany. McCall, C. (2012, November). Social Minds in Virtual Worlds. Talk presented at Psychology Department Colloquim. University of Kent, Cantebury, UK. McCall, C. (2012, July). The Science of Compassion: Origins, measures, and interventions. Talk presented in the Neural Indices of Compassion Panel at The Science of Compassion (conference). Telluride, Colorado, USA. McCall, C., (2012, May). Using virtual environments to study social cognition and behavior. Talk presented at Social Cognition, Engagement and the Second-Person-Perspective (conference). University of Cologne, Germany. McCall, C., (2011, July). Attitude embodiment in virtual environments. Talk presented at the Knowledge Media Research Center. Tübingen, Germany.

6 McCall, C., (2010, February). Using Virtual Environments to Study Social Behavior. Talk presented at Westmont College. Montecito, California. McCall, C., Bailenson, J.B., Blascovich, J., Miyanohara, M., & Beall, A. (2009, May). The effects of social orienting during a lecture delivered in a virtual environment. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association. Chicago, Illinois. McCall, C., Bunyan, D., Bailenson, J.B., Blascovich, J., & Beall, A. (2009, March ). Leveraging collaborative virtual environment technology in a persuasive context. Talk presented by Jesse Fox at the RAVE 2009 conference. Barcelona, Spain. Kane, H., McCall, C., Collins, N., & Blascovich, J. (2009, February). Understanding the effects of social support from a significant other in an immersive virtual environment. Talk presented at annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Tampa, Florida. McCall, C. (with Wigboldus, D., 2008, November). Creating virtual environments for use in behavioral research. Workshop presented at the Winter School of Media & Behavior. Bergen, Netherlands. McCall, C. (2008, August), Creating virtual environments for human research, Three day workshop at the Psychology Department, University of Kansas. Lawrence, Kansas. McCall, C. (2008, May), Creating virtual environments for psychological research, Three day workshop at the Psychology Department, University of California, Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara, California. McCall, C. (2006, October), Social Psychology in Virtual Environments, Invited presentation at the Psychology Department, University of Massachusettes, Amherst. Amherst, Massachusetts. McCall, C., Blascovich, J., Persky, S., & Young, A. (2006, January). Using immersive virtual environment technology: Proxemic behavior as an implicit predictor of aggression towards black males. Talk given at annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Palm Springs, California. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS McCall, C., & Singer, T. (2014, April). Implicit responses to unfair others: The introduction of proxemic imaging to measure social approach and avoidance. Poster presented at The Society for Affective Science Annual Meeting, Bethesda, Maryland. McCall, C., Hildebrandt, L. & Singer, T., (2013, October). Using immersive virtual environments to study nonconcious social behavior. Poster presented at the Mind and Life Europe Symposium for Contemplative Studies, Berlin, Germany. McCall, C., Tipper, C., Blascovich, J., & Grafton, S. (2011, January). Attitudes Trigger Motor Behavior through Conditioned Associations: Neural and Behavioral Evidence. Poster presented at the Alpine Brain Imaging Meeting, Champéry, Switzerland. McCall, C., Bailenson, J.B., Blascovich, J., Miyanohara, M., & Beall, A. (2010, January). The effects of social orienting during a lecture delivered in a virtual environment. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Las Vegas, Nevada.

7 McCall, C. & Blascovich, J. (2009, February). The plasticity of attitude embodiment. Poster presented at the Conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Tampa, Florida. Ma, C., Blascovich, J., McCall, C. (2009, February). Culture, emotion, and the body: East-West differences in physiological self-perception. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Tampa, Florida. Persky, S., Kaphingst, K., McCall, C., Lachance, C., Beall, A., & Blascovich. J. (2009, February). Experiences of presence in virtual environments can lead to variable information processing. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Tampa, Florida. Kaphingst, K., Persky, S., Lachance, C., McCall, C., Loewenstein, J., Beall, A., & Blascovich, J. (2008, September) Innovative approaches for communicating with patients about genetic concepts. Paper presented at the International Conference on Communication in Healthcare, Oslo, Norway. Kane, H., McCall, C., Collins, N., & Blascovich, J. (2008, February). The effects of social support from a significant other in an immersive virtual environment. Poster presented at the Conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Albuquerque, New Mexico. Kaphingst, K. A., Persky, S., Lachance, C., McCall, C., Beall, A., & Blascovich, J. (2007, November) Using virtual reality to develop and test educational approaches for abstract scientific concepts. Paper presented at American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. McCall, C. & Blascovich, J.B. (2007, February) Using online digital face tracking to detect affect. Poster presented at the Conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Memphis, Tennessee. Bailenson, J.N., Davies, A., Beall. A.C., Blascovich, J., Guadagno, R.E., & McCall, C. (2006, August). The effects of witness viewpoint distance, angle, and choice on eyewitness accuracy in police lineups conducted in immersive virtual environments. Proceedings of PRESENCE 2006: The 9th Annual International Workshop on Presence. Cleveland, Ohio. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Reviewed manuscripts for various academic journals including Psychological Science, Neuron, Journal of Communication, Media Psycholoy, NeuroImage, Psychophysiology, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Cross-Cultural Research, Cyberpsychology and Behavior, Journal of Personality, and Behavior Research Methods. Reviewed grants for various institutions including the National Science Foundation and the European Research Council.