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Michael Potegal 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 Potegal sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 111 publications — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael Potegal 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 Potegal sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Michael Potegal is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research focuses on psychology, social sciences, and neuroscience, with specific contributions to social psychology, sociology and political science, behavioral neuroscience, health, and biological psychiatry.

Their main research topics include:

  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Stress responses and cortisol
  • Bullying, victimization, and aggression
  • Workplace violence and bullying
  • Intimate partner and family violence
  • Stalking, cyberstalking, and harassment
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Michael Potegal are:

  • "Potentiation of Divergent Medial Amygdala Pathways Drives Experience-Dependent Aggression Escalation," 2020, published in Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Non-angry aggressive arousal and angriffsberietschaft: A narrative review of the phenomenology and physiology of proactive/offensive aggression motivation and escalation in people and other animals," 2023, published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Levels of Aggression Escalation in Adult/Geriatric Occupational Therapy Workplaces," 2022, published in Psychological Reports
  • "What Dyadic Internet Street Fight Videos Can and Cannot Tell Us About the Ethological, Game Theoretic, and Sex-Differentiated Phenomenology of Human Physical Aggression," 2024, published in Aggressive Behavior
  • "How it ends: A review of behavioral and psychological phenomena, physiological processes and neural circuits in the termination of aggression in other animals and anger in people," 2023, published in Behavioural Brain Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Michael Potegal include:

  • Jacob C. Nordman
  • Mimi Kim
  • Xiaoyu Ma
  • Qinhua Gu
  • He Li

Their work has appeared across several publication venues, such as:

  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Psychological Reports
  • Aggressive Behavior
  • Behavioural Brain Research

Best Publications

  • Vasopressin receptor blockade in the anterior hypothalamus suppresses aggression in hamsters

    Craig F. Ferris;Michael Potegal

  • Aggressive behaviors in adult rats deprived of playfighting experience as juveniles.

    Michael Potegal;Dorothy Einon

  • Evidence for caudate nucleus involvement in an egocentric spatial task: Return from passive transport

    L. Abraham;M. Potegal;S. Miller

  • Temper tantrums in young children: 1. Behavioral composition.

    Michael Potegal;Richard J. Davidson

  • Vasopressin in the septal area of the golden hamster controls scent marking and grooming.

    Robert W. Irvin;Patricia Szot;Daniel M. Dorsa;Michael Potegal

  • Conditioned defeat in the Syrian golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus)

    M. Potegal;K. Huhman;T. Moore;J. Meyerhoff

  • International handbook of anger

    Michael Potegal;Gerhard Stemmler;Charles Spielberger

  • Role of the caudate nucleus in spatial orientation of rats.

    Michael Potegal

  • International handbook of anger : constituent and concomitant biological, psychological, and social processes

    Michael Potegal;Gerhard Stemmler;Charles Donald Spielberger

  • Rages—What Are They and Who Has Them?

    Gabrielle A. Carlson;Michael Potegal;David Margulies;Zinoviy Gutkovich

  • Temper tantrums in young children: 2. Tantrum duration and temporal organization.

    Michael Potegal;Michael R. Kosorok;Richard J. Davidson

  • Brief, high-frequency stimulation of the corticomedial amygdala induces a delayed and prolonged increase of aggressiveness in male Syrian golden hamsters

    M. Potegal;M. Hebert;M. DeCoster;J. L. Meyerhoff

  • Evidence for a functional and anatomical relationship between the lateral septum and the hypothalamus in the control of flank marking behavior in Golden hamsters.

    Craig F. Ferris;Larry Gold;Geert J. De Vries;Michael Potegal

  • Intraspecific aggression in male hamsters is inhibited by intrahypothalamic vasopressin-receptor antagonist

    Michael Potegal;Craig F. Ferris

  • Attack priming in female Syrian golden hamsters is associated with a c-fos-coupled process within the corticomedial amygdala

    Michael Potegal;C. F. Ferris;M. Hebert;J. Meyerhoff

  • The dynamics of aggression: Biological and social processes in dyads and groups.

    Michael Potegal;John F. Knutson

  • Temporal and frontal lobe initiation and regulation of the top-down escalation of anger and aggression.

    Michael Potegal

  • Wandering and parietal signs in senile dementia of Alzheimer's type.

    M. J. De Leon;Michael Potegal;B. Gurland

  • Vestibular involvement in a passive transport and return task

    Susan Miller;Michael Potegal;Larry Abraham

  • The reinforcing value of several types of aggressive behavior: A review

    Michael Potegal

Frequent Co-Authors

Craig F. Ferris
Craig F. Ferris Northeastern University
Gabrielle A. Carlson
Gabrielle A. Carlson Stony Brook University
James L. Meyerhoff
James L. Meyerhoff Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Peihua Qiu
Peihua Qiu University of Florida
Gerhard Stemmler
Gerhard Stemmler Philipp University of Marburg
Richard J. Davidson
Richard J. Davidson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Charles D. Spielberger
Charles D. Spielberger University of South Florida
Dacher Keltner
Dacher Keltner University of California, Berkeley
Melanie M. Wall
Melanie M. Wall Columbia University
Jill Lobbestael
Jill Lobbestael Maastricht University

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