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University of California, San Diego: La Jolla, CA, US

2019-07-01 to present | Professor (Psychology)
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Michael McCullough

Works (33)

When evaluating gods, US Prolific workers prioritize efficacy rather than perfection

Religion, Brain & Behavior
2025-03-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2025.2457368
Contributors: Megan R. Mulhinch; Michael E. McCullough
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On the evolved psychological mechanisms that make peace and reconciliation between groups possible

Behavioral and Brain Sciences
2024 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X23002479
Contributors: Michael E. McCullough; David Pietraszewski
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Does empathy promote helping by activating altruistic motivation or concern about social evaluation? A direct replication of Fultz et al. (1986).

Emotion
2024-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1037/emo0001339
Contributors: Thomas G. McCauley; William H. B. McAuliffe; Michael E. McCullough
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Empathy and Prosocial Learning: Evidence for Correlation but Not for Causation

2024-12-17 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/skmzw
Contributors: Thomas Granville McCauley; Michael E. McCullough
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Empathy and Prosocial Learning: Evidence for a Small Association, But Weak Evidence for Causation

2024-11-13 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/wmh6b
Contributors: Thomas Granville McCauley; Michael E. McCullough
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Does Measurement Bias Explain Sex Differences in Self-Reported Empathy?

2024-08-21 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/6ps2r
Contributors: Thomas Granville McCauley; William H.B. McAuliffe; Michael E. McCullough
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When it comes to taxes, ownership intuitions abide by the law

Behavioral and Brain Sciences
2023 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X23001206
Contributors: Leo J. Kleiman-Lynch; Michael E. McCullough
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On the evolved psychological mechanisms that make peace and reconciliation between groups possible

2023-05-17 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/xhtbz
Contributors: Michael E. McCullough; David Pietraszewski
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Retrospective Self-Reported Childhood Experiences in Enriched Environments Uniquely Predict Prosocial Behavior and Personality Traits in Adulthood

Evolutionary Psychology
2022-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/14747049221110603
Contributors: Thomas G. McCauley; Michael E. McCullough
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An evolutionary psychology view of forgiveness: individuals, groups, and culture

Current Opinion in Psychology
2022-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.09.021
Contributors: Thomas G. McCauley; Joseph Billingsley; Michael E. McCullough
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Does Empathy Promote Helping by Activating Altruistic Motivation or Concern About Social Evaluation? A Direct Replication of Fultz et al. (1986)

2022-01-04 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/7vsau
Contributors: Thomas Granville McCauley; William H.B. McAuliffe; Michael E. McCullough
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An Evolutionary Psychology View of Forgiveness: Individuals, Groups, and Culture

2021-10-14 | Other
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/c4f2k
Contributors: Thomas Granville McCauley; Michael E. McCullough; Joseph Billingsley
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Evaluating benefits, costs, and social value as predictors of gratitude

2021-09-14 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/ckedr
Contributors: Daniel Eric Forster; Eric J. Pedersen; Michael E. McCullough; Debra Lieberman
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Does religion make people more self-controlled? A review of research from the lab and life

Current Opinion in Psychology
2021-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.12.001
Contributors: Zeve J. Marcus; Michael E. McCullough
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Moral reasoning performance determines epistemic peerdom

Behavioral and Brain Sciences
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X18002595
Contributors: William H. B. McAuliffe; Michael E. McCullough
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Religion Causes Decreases in Women’s Provocativeness of Dress

2019-06-06 | Other
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/g7de9
Contributors: Liana Senneth Elliott Hone; Michael E. McCullough
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Self-Reported Childhood Experiences in Enriched Environments Uniquely Predict Prosocial Behavior and Personality Traits in Adulthood

2019-06-05 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/9yba3
Contributors: Thomas Granville McCauley; Michael E. McCullough
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Searching For Prosociality in Qualitative Data: Comparing Manual, Closed-Vocabulary, and Open-Vocabulary Methods

2019-06-04 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/y3fj4
Contributors: William H.B. McAuliffe; Hannah Moshontz; Thomas Granville McCauley; Michael E. McCullough
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Forgiveness Takes Place on an Attitudinal Continuum from Hostility to Friendliness: Toward a Closer Union of Forgiveness Theory and Measurement

2019-03-15 | Other
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/wkvhn
Contributors: Daniel Eric Forster; Joseph Billingsley; Michelle Russell; Jeni Burnette; Adam Smith; Yohsuke Ohtsubo; Thomas Granville McCauley; Joanna Schug; Debra Lieberman; Michael E. McCullough
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Is empathy the default response to suffering? A meta-analytic evaluation of perspective-taking’s effect on empathic concern

2019-03-05 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/bwxm9
Contributors: William H.B. McAuliffe; Evan C Carter; Juliana Berhane; Alexander Snihur; Michael E. McCullough
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Learning Whether to Cooperate in Novel Social Interactions

2019-01-16 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/rnkum
Contributors: William H.B. McAuliffe; Michael E. McCullough; Maxwell Burton-Chellew
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Moral Reasoning Performance Determines Epistemic Peerdom

2019-01-02 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/4xpzj
Contributors: William H.B. McAuliffe; Michael E. McCullough
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When and why do third parties punish outside of the lab? A cross-cultural recall study

2018-11-30 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/fhe62
Contributors: Eric J. Pedersen; William H.B. McAuliffe; Yohsuke Ohtsubo; Michael E. McCullough
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Altruism and Malevolence: Opposite Ends of a Single Dimension

2018-11-07 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/x3by6
Contributors: William H.B. McAuliffe; Michael E. McCullough; Debra Lieberman
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Experience with anonymous interactions reduces intuitive cooperation

Nature Human Behaviour
2018-10-22 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-018-0454-9
Contributors: William H. B. McAuliffe; Daniel E. Forster; Eric J. Pedersen; Michael E. McCullough
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The Sex Premium in Religiously Motivated Moral Judgment

2018-07-17 | Other
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/xpz5h
Contributors: Liana Senneth Elliott Hone; Thomas Granville McCauley; Eric J. Pedersen; Evan C Carter; Michael E. McCullough
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Implicit and Explicit Influences of Religious Cognition on Dictator Game Transfers

2018-06-05 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/6amfe
Contributors: Michael E. McCullough; Joseph Billingsley; Cristina Gomes
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Apologies Promote Forgiveness and Restore Cooperation by Increasing Perceived Relationship Value

2018-05-24 | Other
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/f28ya
Contributors: Daniel Eric Forster; Michelle Russell; Joseph Billingsley; Jeni Burnette; Robert Kurzban; Yohsuke Ohtsubo; Debra Lieberman; Michael E. McCullough
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Are Women More Likely to Wear Red or Pink at Peak Fertility? Close and Conceptual Replications with Novel Clothing Color Measures

2018-04-20 | Other
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/8mv32
Contributors: Liana Senneth Elliott Hone; Michael E. McCullough
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Longitudinal Evidence that Experience with Anonymous Interactions Reduces Intuitive Cooperation

2018-04-13 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/4jktw
Contributors: William H.B. McAuliffe; Daniel Eric Forster; Eric J. Pedersen; Michael E. McCullough
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Does Cooperation In the Laboratory Reflect the Operation of a Broad Trait?

2018-04-05 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/sjgca
Contributors: William H.B. McAuliffe; Daniel Eric Forster; Eric J. Pedersen; Michael E. McCullough
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The unresponsive avenger: More evidence that disinterested third parties do not punish altruistically

2018-03-28 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/nybkr
Contributors: Eric J. Pedersen; William H.B. McAuliffe; Michael E. McCullough
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Christian religious badges instill trust in Christian and non-Christian perceivers.

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
2016-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1037/rel0000045
Contributors: Michael E. McCullough; Paul Swartwout; John H. Shaver; Evan C. Carter; Richard Sosis
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