Aaron Laycock
PhD student
Profile
Biography
- PhD in Psychology, University of York, UK, 2021-2025 (current)
- MA, Social Research Methods, University of York, UK, 2021-2022
- MSci, Psychology, University of York, UK, 2017-2021
- Research Assistant, LifeLike lab, University of York, UK, 2018 - present
- Ministry Of Defence, Royal Marine Commando, 1999-2017
Career
Since 2018 I have worked alongside my studies as a research assistant in the LifeLike lab led by Dr Cade McCall. Current projects are focused on understanding the effects of uncertainty and threat on psychophysiology, subjective experience, and cognitive performance. Previous to this role I was employed by the Ministry of Defence and was actively involved in security operations as a Commando in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the UK. Here I served in various command positions and specialised units from 2003.
Research
Overview
Complex decision-making in threatening environments
Projects
My research is funded by the ESRC and aims to use psychophysiology, virtual reality, and advanced quantitative methods to help understand the effects of subjective experience of threat and applied complexity on higher-order cognition.
Research group(s)
- LifeLike Lab
Grants
- Advanced Quantitative Methods scholarship from the ESRC
Collaborators
- Dr Cade McCall
- Dr Harriet Over
Teaching
Publications
Selected publications
- McCall, Cade, Guy Schofield, Darel Halgarth, Georgina Blyth, Aaron Laycock, and Daniela J. Palombo. "The underwood project: A virtual environment for eliciting ambiguous threat." Behavior research methods (2022): 1-16.
