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Michael E. McCullough
Researcher at University of California, San Diego
Publications - 188
Citations - 35724
Michael E. McCullough is an academic researcher from University of California, San Diego. The author has contributed to research in topics: Forgiveness & Religiosity. The author has an hindex of 72, co-authored 185 publications receiving 33191 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael E. McCullough include Virginia Commonwealth University & National Institutes of Health.
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Religious people discount the future less
TL;DR: The authors found that religious commitment was associated with a tendency to forgo immediate rewards in order to gain larger, future rewards, and that this relationship was partially mediated by future time orientation, which is a subjective sense that the future is very close in time and is approaching rapidly.
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Longitudinal Associations Among Religiousness, Delay Discounting, and Substance Use Initiation in Early Adolescence.
TL;DR: Path analyses suggested that high levels of personal religiousness at Time 1 were related to low levels of substance use at Time 2 (2.4 years later), mediated byLow levels of delay discounting appears to be an important contributor to the protective effect of religiousness on the development of substance Use among adolescents.
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Conciliatory Gestures Facilitate Forgiveness and Feelings of Friendship by Making Transgressors Appear More Agreeable
TL;DR: Results suggest that conciliatory gestures promote forgiveness in part by depicting transgressors as more sympathetic, considerate, fair, and just (i.e., agreeable) than victims' perceptions of their transgressors' Agreeableness.
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Explaining the relationship between religiousness and substance use: self-control matters.
C. Nathan DeWall,Richard S. Pond,Evan C. Carter,Michael E. McCullough,Nathaniel M. Lambert,Frank D. Fincham,John B. Nezlek,John B. Nezlek +7 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that self-control mediates the relationship between religiousness and a variety of substance-use behaviors and extended these effects to both alcohol and various forms of drug use among community and cross-cultural adult samples.
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Processes Linking Parents’ and Adolescents’ Religiousness and Adolescent Substance Use: Monitoring and Self-Control
Jungmeen Kim-Spoon,Julee P. Farley,Christopher Holmes,Gregory S. Longo,Michael E. McCullough +4 more
TL;DR: The results illustrate that adolescents with high awareness of being monitored by God are likely to show high self-control abilities and, consequently, low substance use.