Kate McKay

PhD Candidate
School of Psychology, the University of Queensland
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Empower Autism

Brisbane, QLD

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Biography

I am a PhD Candidate at the University of Queensland in the School of Psychology. In my present work, I investigate attention shifts induced by visual social cues and test mechanistic explanations of how those shifts are affected by normal adult ageing. I am particularly interested in social perceptual decision making, social attention, and cognitive ageing. I have completed or am currently completing work investigating empathic capacities and empathic decision making, basic social-perceptual processing, and associations between autistic traits and social cognition across the lifespan. 

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Academic paper

2022

McKay, K. T., Talipski, L. A., Grainger, S. A., Alister, M., & Henry, J. D. (2022). How does aging affect social attention? A test of competing theories using multilevel meta-analysis. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 77(8), 1454–1463. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbac052
Academic paper

2021

McKay, K. T., Grainger, S. A., Coundouris, S. P., Skorich, D. P., Phillips, L. H., & Henry, J. D. (2021). Visual attentional orienting by eye gaze: A meta-analytic review of the gaze-cueing effect. Psychological Bulletin, 147(12), 1269–1289. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000353