Cate MacColl

My name is Cate MacColl and I am a PhD Candidate in the School of Psychology at The University of Queensland.

My research focuses on cognitive development and metacognition, how children and adults learn, make decisions, and reflect on their own thinking. I study these questions using behavioural tasks that tap into foundational abilities such as basic decision-making, understanding possibilities and probabilities, and calibrating our confidence to our choices. 

I’m also interested in how methods from cognitive neuroscience and computational modelling can enrich these investigations. Broadly, I aim to understand how we represent possibilities and the unknown, what it means to be confident and how that can be measured, and how these beliefs shape the way we update decisions or seek new information.

If you’d like to get in touch, feel free to email me at c.maccoll@uq.net.au or join my (very modest) online presence on Twitter@CateMacColl or Bluesky@catemaccoll.bsky.social.