Dial Center for Speech and Communication Studies

Director of Public Speaking Lab

Assistant Instructional Professor

Dr. McCarty is an educator and social scientist specializing in the communication of social and interpersonal influence, particularly within the spheres of compliance gaining, deception, and intergroup communication. He came to UF from the University of Tennessee, where he studied the strategic use of pseudo-reasoning, and he has taught public speaking and other dimensions of communication for several years. Dr. McCarty has contributed research and teaching presentations to the National Communication Association and Southern States Communication Association, and he has contributed to published research in the journals Communication Research and the Journal of Family Communication.