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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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An Adaptation for Altruism The Social Causes, Social Effects, and Social Evolution of Gratitude
TL;DR: For example, the authors suggests that people feel grateful when they have benefited from someone's costly, intentional, and voluntary effort on their behalf, which motivates them to repay their benefactors and to extend generosity to third parties.
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Forgiveness and Justice: A Research Agenda for Social and Personality Psychology:
TL;DR: In this article, five challenging empirical questions about forgiveness are raised and specific ways in which social and personality psychologists could make distinctive contributions are suggested.
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Problems with measuring peripheral oxytocin: can the data on oxytocin and human behavior be trusted?
TL;DR: Evaluation of commercially available methods for measuring OT reveals that they lack reliability when used on unextracted samples of human fluids, and that they tag molecules in addition to OT, yielding estimates that are wildly discrepant with an extensive body of earlier findings.
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Religion and the Forgiving Personality
TL;DR: The links between forgiveness and religion are explored by surveying how they are linked in the major monotheistic world religions, and how they appear to be linked empirically.
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Transgression-Related Motivational Dispositions: Personality Substrates of Forgiveness and their Links to the Big Five:
TL;DR: The authors used generalizability analysis to evaluate the contribution of individual differences to people's transgression-related interpersonal motivations (TRIMs) and found that individual differences accounted for 22% to 44% of the variance in participants' TRIMs (i.e., avoidance, benevolence, and revenge).