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D-Index
90
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62853
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932
National Ranking
589

Michael E. McCullough publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael E. McCullough sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 258 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Michael E. McCullough D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael E. McCullough sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 90 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Michael E. McCullough is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research spans across psychology and social sciences, with a focus on social psychology and related subfields such as sociology and political science, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's work addresses multiple main topics including cultural differences and values, forgiveness and related behaviors, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, social and intergroup psychology, religion, spirituality, and psychology, grief, bereavement, and mental health, as well as evolutionary psychology and human behavior.

Frequent publication venues for McCullough include Evolution and Human Behavior, where three papers have been published, Current Opinion in Psychology with two papers, PsycTESTS Dataset, also with two papers, Behavioral and Brain Sciences with two publications, and Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology.

Significant recent papers include:

  • Does religion make people more self-controlled? A review of research from the lab and life, 2020, Current Opinion in Psychology
  • An evolutionary psychology view of forgiveness: individuals, groups, and culture, 2021, Current Opinion in Psychology
  • Sleep and Sport Performance, 2023, Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology
  • The sex premium in religiously motivated moral judgment, 2020, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Evaluating Benefits, Costs, and Social Value as Predictors of Gratitude, 2022, Psychological Science

McCullough has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, notably Daniel E. Forster and Debra Lieberman, each with five joint works. Other regular collaborators include Thomas Granville McCauley, Joseph Billingsley, and Jeni L. Burnette, with four joint works apiece.

Best Publications

  • Handbook of Religion and Health

    Harold George Koenig;Michael E. McCullough;David B. Larson

  • The grateful disposition: A conceptual and empirical topography

    Michael E. McCullough;Robert A. Emmons;Jo-Ann Tsang

  • Counting blessings versus burdens: An experimental investigation of gratitude and subjective well-being in daily life.

    Robert A. Emmons;Michael E. McCullough

  • The grateful disposition: A conceptual and empirical topography.

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  • Conceptualizing Religion and Spirituality: Points of Commonality, Points of Departure

    Peter C. Hill;Kenneth Ii. Pargament;Ralph W. Hood;Michael E. McCullough Jr.

  • Interpersonal Forgiving in Close Relationships: II. Theoretical Elaboration and Measurement

    McCullough Me;Rachal Kc;Sandage Sj;Worthington El

  • Interpersonal forgiving in close relationships

    Michael E. McCullough;Everett L. Worthington Jr.;Kenneth C. Rachal

  • Is gratitude a moral affect

    Michael E. McCullough;Shelley D. Kilpatrick;Robert A. Emmons;David B. Larson

  • Religiousness and depression: evidence for a main effect and the moderating influence of stressful life events.

    Timothy B. Smith;Michael E. McCullough;Justin Poll

  • Religion, self-regulation, and self-control: Associations, explanations, and implications.

    Michael E. McCullough;Brian L. B. Willoughby

  • The Religious Commitment Inventory--10: Development, Refinement, and Validation of a Brief Scale for Research and Counseling.

    Everett L. Worthington Jr.;Nathaniel G. Wade;Terry L. Hight;Jennifer S. Ripley

  • Religious Involvement and Mortality: A Meta-Analytic Review

    Michael E. McCullough;William T. Hoyt;William T. Hoyt;David B. Larson;Harold G. Koenig

  • The Psychology of Gratitude

    Robert A. Emmons;Michael E. McCullough

  • Spirituality and Health: What We Know, What We Need to Know

    Linda K. George;David B. Larson;Harold G. Koenig;Michael E. McCullough

  • The psychology of forgiveness.

    Michael E. McCullough;Charlotte Vanoyen Witvliet

  • Interpersonal forgiving in close relationships.

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  • Forgiveness, forbearance, and time: the temporal unfolding of transgression-related interpersonal motivations.

    Michael E. McCullough;Frank D. Fincham;Jo Ann Tsang

  • Vengefulness: Relationships with Forgiveness, Rumination, Well-Being, and the Big Five

    Michael E. McCullough;C. Garth Bellah;Shelley Dean Kilpatrick;Judith L. Johnson

  • Forgiveness: Theory, research, and practice.

    Michael E. McCullough;Kenneth I. Pargament;Carl E. Thoresen

  • Forgiveness as Human Strength: Theory, Measurement, and Links to Well-Being

    Michael E. McCullough

  • Gratitude in Intermediate Affective Terrain: Links of Grateful Moods to Individual Differences and Daily Emotional Experience.

    Michael E. McCullough;Jo Ann Tsang;Robert A. Emmons

  • Dimensions of religiosity and their relationship to lifetime psychiatric and substance use disorders.

    Kenneth S. Kendler;Xiao Qing Liu;Charles O. Gardner;Michael E. McCullough

  • Religious involvement and mortality: A meta-analytic review.

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  • "Religiousness and depression: Evidence for a main effect and the moderating influence of stressful life events": Correction to Smith et al. (2003).

    Timothy B. Smith;Michael E. McCullough;Justin Poll

Frequent Co-Authors

Harold G. Koenig
Harold G. Koenig Duke University
Everett L. Worthington
Everett L. Worthington Virginia Commonwealth University
Robert A. Emmons
Robert A. Emmons University of California, Davis
William T. Hoyt
William T. Hoyt University of Wisconsin–Madison
Robert Kurzban
Robert Kurzban University of Pennsylvania
John W. Berry
John W. Berry Queen's University
Debra Lieberman
Debra Lieberman University of Miami
Charles S. Carver
Charles S. Carver University of Miami
Carl E. Thoresen
Carl E. Thoresen Stanford University
Kenneth I. Pargament
Kenneth I. Pargament Bowling Green State University

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