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Michael McCullough
Professor of Psychology, UC San Diego

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A Trading Scheme to Reduce False Positives

McCullough, M.E., & Kelly, D.L. (2014). Nature, 508, 319.

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Year: 2014, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Explaining the Relationship Between Religiosity and Alcohol Consumption: Self-Control Matters

Dewall, C.N., Pond, R.S., Carter, E.C., McCullough, M.E., Lambert, N.M., Fincham, F. D., & Nezlek, J.B. (2014). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107,339-351.

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Year: 2014, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Processes Linking Parents’ and Adolescents’ Religiousness and Adolescent Substance Use: Monitoring and Self-Control

Kim-Spoon, J., Farley, J., Holmes, C., Longo, G., & McCullough, M.E. (2014). Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 43, 745-756. DOI: 10.1007/s10964-013-9998-1

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Year: 2014, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Longitudinal Associations Among Religiousness, Delay Discounting, and Substance Use Initiation in Early Adolescence

Kim-Spoon, J., McCullough, M.E., Bickel, W.K., Farley, J.P., & Longo, G.S. (2014). Journal of Research on Adolescence, 25, 36-43. DOI: 10.1111/jora.12104

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Year: 2014, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Conciliatory Gestures Promote Forgiveness and Reduce Anger in Humans

McCullough, M.E., Pedersen, E.J., Tabak, B.A., & Carter, E.C. (2014). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111 (30), 11211-11216. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1405072111

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Year: 2014, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Life History, Code of Honor, and Emotional Responses to Inequality in an Economic Game

Pedersen, E.J., Forster, D.E., & McCullough, M.E. (2014). Emotion, 14, 920-929. DOI: 10.1037/a0036752

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Year: 2014, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Variation in Oxytocin Receptor Gene (OXTR) Polymorphisms Is Associated With Emotional and Behavioral Reactions to Betrayal

Tabak, B.A., McCullough, M.E., Carver, C.S., Pedersen, E.J., & Cuccaro, M.L. (2014). Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9, 810-816. DOI: 10.1093/scan/nst042

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Year: 2014, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
After a Pair of Self-Control-Intensive Tasks, Sucrose Swishing Improves Subsequent Working Memory Performance

Carter, E.C., & McCullough, M.E. (2013). BMC Psychology, 1, 22. DOI: 10.1186/2050-7283-1-22

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Year: 2013, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Is Ego Depletion Too Incredible? Evidence for the Overestimation of the Depletion Effect

Carter, E.C., & McCullough, M.E. (2013). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36, 683-684.

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Year: 2013, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Drinking Games as a Venue for Sexual Competition

Hone, L.S.E., McCullough, M.E., & Carter, E.C. (2013). Evolutionary Psychology, 11, 889-906. DOI: 10.1177/147470491301100413

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Year: 2013, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Religion, Self-Control, and Self-Regulation: How and Why Are They Related?

McCullough, M.E., & Carter, E. (2013). In J.J. Exline (Ed.), APA Handbook of Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality (pp. 123-138). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. DOI: 10.1037/14045-006

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Year: 2013, Type: book chapterScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Problems With Measuring Peripheral Oxytocin: Can the Data on Oxytocin and Human Behavior Be Trusted?

McCullough, M.E., Churchland, P.S., & Mendez, A.J. (2013). Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 37, 1485-1492.

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Year: 2013, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Cognitive Systems for Revenge and Forgiveness

McCullough, M.E., & Kurzban, R., & Tabak, B.A. (2013). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36, 1-58. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X11002160

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Year: 2013, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
The Evolution of Generosity: How Natural Selection Builds Devices for Benefit Delivery

McCullough, M.E., & Pedersen, E.J. (2013). Social Research, 80, 387-410. DOI:10.1353/sor.2013.0021

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Year: 2013, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Evaluating the Religious Commitment Inventory for Adolescents

Miller, W., Shepperd, J.A., & McCullough, M.E. (2013). Psychology of Spirituality & Religion, 5, 233-241. DOI: 10.1037/a0031694

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Year: 2013, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Do Humans Really Punish Altruistically? A Closer Look

Pedersen, E.J., Kurzban, R., & McCullough, M.E. (2013). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280, 20122723. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2723

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Year: 2013, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Do Agreeableness and Neuroticism Explain Age Differences in the Tendency to Forgive Others?

Allemand, M., Steiner, M., & McCullough, M.E. (2012). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 441-453. DOI: 10.1177/0146167211427923

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Year: 2012, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
The Mediating Role of Monitoring in the Association of Religion With Self-Control

Carter, E.C., McCullough, M.E., & Carver, C.S. (2012). Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3, 691-697. DOI: 10.1177/1948550612438925

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Year: 2012, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Forgiveness Results From Integrating Information About Relationship Value and Exploitation Risk

Burnette, J.L., McCullough, M.E., Van Tongeren, D.R., & Davis, D.E. (2012). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 345-356. DOI: 10.1177/0146167211424582

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Year: 2012, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Religious People Discount the Future Less

Carter, E.C., McCullough, M.E., Kim-Spoon, J., Corrales, C., & Blake, A. (2012). Evolution and Human Behavior, 33, 224-231. DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2011.09.006

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Year: 2012, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
2D:4D Ratios Predict Hand Grip Strength (But Not Hand Grip Endurance) in Men (But Not in Women)

Hone, L.S.E., & McCullough, M.E. (2012). Evolution and Human Behavior, 33, 780-789.

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Year: 2012, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Adolescents Who Are Less Religious Than Their Parents Are at Risk for Externalizing and Internalizing Symptoms: The Mediating Role of Parent-Adolescent Relationship Quality

Kim-Spoon, J., Longo, G., & McCullough, M.E. (2012). Journal of Family Psychology, 26, 636-641. DOI:10.1037/a0029176

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Year: 2012, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Parent-Adolescent Relationship Quality as a Moderator for the Influences of Parents’ Religiousness on Adolescents’ Religiousness and Adjustment

Kim-Spoon, J., Longo, G., & McCullough, M.E. (2012). Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 41, 1576-1587. DOI: 10.1007/s10964-012-9796-1

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Year: 2012, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Religious Cognition Down-Regulates Sexually Selected, Characteristically Male Behaviors in Men, But Not in Women

McCullough, M.E., Carter, E.C., & DeWall, C.N., & Corrales, C.M. (2012). Evolution and Human Behavior, 33, 562-568. DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2012.02.004

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Year: 2012, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Harsh Childhood Environmental Characteristics Predict Exploitation and Retaliation in Humans

McCullough, M.E., Pedersen, E.J., Schroder, J.M., Tabak, B.A., & Carver, C.S. (2012). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280, 20122104.

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Year: 2012, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Conciliatory Gestures Facilitate Forgiveness and Feelings of Friendship by Making Transgressors Seem More Agreeable

Tabak, B.A., McCullough, M.E., Root, L.M., Bono, G., & Berry, J.W. (2012). Journal of Personality, 80, 503-536. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2011.00728.x

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Year: 2012, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Oxytocin Infusion Increases Charitable Donations Regardless of Monetary Resources

Barraza, J.A., McCullough, M.E., Ahmadi, S., & Zak, P.J. (2011). Hormones and Behavior, 60, 148-151. DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2011.04.008

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Year: 2011, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Religion and Self-Regulation

McCullough, M.E., & Carter, E. (2011). In K.D. Vohs and R.F. Baumeister (eds.), Handbook of Self-Regulation: Research, Theory, and Applications (2nd ed.) (pp. 422-437). New York: Guilford.

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Year: 2011, Type: book chapterScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Stress Management Skills and Reductions in Serum Cortisol Across the Year After Surgery for Non-Metastatic Breast Cancer

Phillips, K.M., Antoni, M.H., Carver, C.S., Lechner, S.C., Penedo, F.J., McCullough, M.E., Glück, S., DerHagopian, R., & Blomberg, B.B. (2011). Cognitive Therapy and Research, 35, 95-600. DOI: 10.1007/s10608-011-9398-3

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Year: 2011, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Age Differences in Forgivingness: The Role of Transgression Frequency and Intensity

Steiner, M., Allemand, M., & McCullough, M.E. (2011). Journal of Research in Personality, 45, 670-678. DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2011.09.004

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Year: 2011, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Evaluation of Enzyme Immunoassay and Radioimmunoassay Methods for the Measurement of Plasma Oxytocin

Szeto, A., McCabe, P.M., Nation, D.A., Tabak, B.A., Rossetti, M.A., McCullough, M.E., Scheiderman, N., Mendez, A.J. (2011). Psychosomatic Medicine, 73, 393-400. DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e31821df0c2

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Year: 2011, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Perceived Transgressor Agreeableness Decreases Cortisol Response and Increases Forgiveness Following Recent Interpersonal Transgressions

Tabak, B.A., & McCullough, M.E. (2011). Biological Psychology, 87, 386-392. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.05.001

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Year: 2011, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Oxytocin Indexes Relational Distress Following Interpersonal Harms in Women

Tabak, B.A., McCullough, M.E., Szeto, A., Mendez, A.J., McCabe, P.M. (2011). Psychoneuroendocrinology, 36, 115-122. DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2010.07.004

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Year: 2011, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Why Religion’s Burdens Are Light: The Role of Implicit Self-Regulation in Religious Behavior

Koole, S.L., McCullough, M.E., Kuhl, J., Roelofsma, P.H.M.P. (2010). Personality and Social Psychology Review, 14, 95-107. DOI: 10.1177/1088868309351109

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Year: 2010, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
On the Form and Function of Forgiving: Modeling the Time-Forgiveness Relationship and Testing the Valuable Relationships Hypothesis

McCullough, M.E., Luna, L.R., Berry, J.W., Tabak, B.A., & Bono, G. (2010). Emotion, 10, 358-376. DOI: 10.1037/a0019349

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Year: 2010, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Prosocial Behavior

McCullough, M.E., & Tabak, B.A. (2010). In R.F. Baumeister and E.J. Finkel (eds.), Advanced social psychology (pp. 263-302). New York: Oxford.

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Year: 2010, Type: book chapterScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Evolved Mechanisms for Revenge and Forgiveness

McCullough, M.E., Tabak, B.A., & Kurzban, R. (2010). In M. Mikulincer and P.R. Shaver (2010). Human aggression and violence: Causes, manifestations, and consequences (pp. 221-239). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

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Year: 2010, Type: book chapterScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Parents’ and Children’s Religiosity and Child Psychopathology Among Maltreated and Nonmaltreated Children

Kim, J., McCullough, M.E., & Cicchetti, D. (2009). Journal of Child and Family Studies, 18, 594-605. DOI: 10.1007/s10826-009-9262-1

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Year: 2009, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 3, 2021
Dynamic Factor Analysis of Worldviews/ Religious Beliefs and Well-Being Among Older Adults

Kim, J., Nesselroade, J.R., & McCullough, M.E. (2009). Journal of Adult Development, 16, 87-100. DOI: 10.1007/s10804-009-9062-2

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Year: 2009, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 2, 2021
Does Devoutness Delay Death? Psychological Investment in Religion and Its Association With Longevity in the Terman Sample

McCullough, M.E., Friedman, H.S., Enders, C.K., & Martin, L.M. (2009). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97, 866-882. DOI: 10.1037/a0016366

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Year: 2009, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 2, 2021
Forgiveness

McCullough, M.E., Root, L.M. Tabak, B., & Witvliet, C.V.O. (2009). In S.J. Lopez (Ed.), Handbook of Positive Psychology (2nd ed.) (pp. 427-435). New York: Oxford.

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Year: 2009, Type: book chapterScienceSitesAugust 2, 2021
Religion, Self-Regulation, and Self-Control: Associations, Explanations, and Implications

McCullough, M.E., & Willoughby, B.L.B. (2009). Psychological Bulletin, 135, 69-93. DOI: 10.1037/a0014213

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Year: 2009, Type: journal articleScienceSitesAugust 2, 2021
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