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Overview

Michael Cunningham is affiliated with the University of Louisville in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a particular emphasis on Surgery, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Sociology and Political Science, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics that reflect their multidisciplinary approach. These topics include:

  • Innovations in Medical Education
  • Surgical Simulation and Training
  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
  • Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques
  • Global Health and Surgery
  • Radiology practices and education
  • Hip and Femur Fractures

Michael Cunningham's frequently published venues include the Journal of European CME, Injury, Global Spine Journal, Orthopedic Clinics of North America, and the Journal of the American Heart Association. These journals indicate a focus on surgical education, trauma, spine-related research, and cardiovascular medicine.

Notable recent publications by Michael Cunningham encompass:

  • Integrating webinars to enhance curriculum implementation: AMEE Guide No. 136, published in 2020 in Medical Teacher
  • Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Toward Antihypertensive Medications Explain Variation in Pharmacy Refill and Self-Reported Adherence Beyond Traditional Risk Factors: Potential Novel Mechanism Underlying Adherence, 2021, Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Development and assessment of competency-based neurotrauma course curriculum for international neurosurgery residents and neurosurgeons, 2020, Neurosurgical FOCUS
  • Evaluation of Blended Online Learning in Three Spinal Surgery Educational Courses, 2022, Journal of European CME
  • Metrics Development for Minimal Invasive Unilateral Laminotomy for Bilateral Decompression of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis With and Without Spondylolisthesis by an International Expert Panel, 2020, Global Spine Journal

The scientist has collaborated frequently with other researchers in their field. These coauthors include Monica Ghidinelli, Emre Acaroğlu, Alain Rickli, Asdrúbal Falavigna, and Aresh Sepehri. Such collaborations reflect a network focused largely on surgical and medical education and spine-related research.

Michael Cunningham has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by the Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology: "About time: fashion & duration," published in 2020.

Best Publications

  • The Geographic Distribution of Big Five Personality Traits Patterns and Profiles of Human Self-Description Across 56 Nations

    David P. Schmitt;Jüri Allik;Robert R. McCrae;Verónica Benet-Martínez

  • Measuring the physical in physical attractiveness: quasi-experiments on the sociobiology of female facial beauty

    Michael R. Cunningham

  • "Their ideas of beauty are, on the whole, the same as ours": Consistency and variability in the cross-cultural perception of female physical attractiveness.

    Michael R. Cunningham;Alan R. Roberts;Anita P. Barbee;Perri B. Druen

  • Weather, mood, and helping behavior: Quasi experiments with the sunshine samaritan.

    Michael R. Cunningham

  • What do women want? Facialmetric assessment of multiple motives in the perception of male facial physical attractiveness.

    Michael R. Cunningham;Anita P. Barbee;Carolyn L. Pike

  • Patterns and Universals of Adult Romantic Attachment Across 62 Cultural Regions Are Models of Self and of Other Pancultural Constructs

    David P. Schmitt;Lidia Alcalay;Melissa Allensworth;Jüri Allik

  • Effects of Gender Role Expectations on the Social Support Process

    Anita P. Barbee;Michael R. Cunningham;Barbara A. Winstead;Valerian J. Derlega

  • Wanting to and having to help: Separate motivations for positive mood and guilt-induced helping.

    Michael R. Cunningham;Jeff Steinberg;Rita Grev

  • An Experimental Approach to Social Support Communications: Interactive Coping in Close Relationships

    Anita P. Barbee;Michael R. Cunningham

  • What do you do when you're happy or blue? Mood, expectancies, and behavioral interest

    Michael R. Cunningham

  • Article Commentary: Averaged Faces Are Attractive, but Very Attractive Faces Are Not Average

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  • Black Males' Structural Conditions, Achievement Patterns, Normative Needs, and “Opportunities”

    Dena Phillips Swanson;Michael Cunningham;Margraret Beale Spencer

  • Does Happiness Mean Friendliness? Induced Mood and Heterosexual Self-Disclosure

    Michael R. Cunningham

  • The evolutionary significance and social perception of male pattern baldness and facial hair

    Frank Muscarella;Michael R. Cunningham

  • Personality and the structure of the nonverbal communication of emotion

    Michael R. Cunningham

  • To comply or not comply: testing the self-perception explanation of the "foot-in-the-door" phenomenon.

    Mark Snyder;Michael R. Cunningham

  • Support Seeking in Personal Relationships

    Anita P. Barbee;Mary R. Gulley;Michael R. Cunningham

  • Heterosexual romantic preferences: The importance of humor and physical attractiveness for different types of relationships

    Duane E. Lundy;Josephine Tan;Michael R. Cunningham

  • Self-presentation dynamics on overt integrity tests: experimental studies of the Reid Report.

    Michael R. Cunningham;Dennis T. Wong;Anita P. Barbee

  • Associations of Future Expectations, Negative Friends, and Academic Achievement in High-Achieving African American Adolescents.

    Michael Cunningham;Charles S. Corprew;Jonathan E. Becker

  • Television Watching and Family Tensions.

    Paul C. Rosenblatt;Michael R. Cunningham

Frequent Co-Authors

Margaret Beale Spencer
Margaret Beale Spencer University of Chicago
Wade C. Rowatt
Wade C. Rowatt Baylor University
Martin Voracek
Martin Voracek University of Vienna
Karl Grammer
Karl Grammer University of Vienna
Ine Vanwesenbeeck
Ine Vanwesenbeeck Utrecht University
Maryanne L. Fisher
Maryanne L. Fisher Saint Mary's University
Astrid Schütz
Astrid Schütz University of Bamberg
Willibald Ruch
Willibald Ruch University of Zurich
David P. Schmitt
David P. Schmitt Kansas State University
Phillip R. Shaver
Phillip R. Shaver University of California, Davis

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