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| Michael E McCulloughSummaryAffiliation: University of Miami Country: USA Publications
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Harsh childhood environmental characteristics predict exploitation and retaliation in humansMichael E McCullough
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124 0751, USA
Proc Biol Sci 280:20122104. 2013....- On the form and function of forgiving: modeling the time-forgiveness relationship and testing the valuable relationships hypothesisMichael E McCullough
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124 0751, USA
Emotion 10:358-76. 2010..Consistent with evolutionary theorizing (McCullough, 2008), Study 2 revealed that forgiveness was uniquely associated with participants' perceptions that their relationships with their offenders retained value... - Does devoutness delay death? Psychological investment in religion and its association with longevity in the Terman sampleMichael E McCullough
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124 0751, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 97:866-82. 2009..Survival differences were largely attributable to cross-sectional and prospective between-class differences in personality traits, social ties, health behaviors, and mental and physical health... - Religion, self-regulation, and self-control: Associations, explanations, and implicationsMichael E McCullough
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124 0751, USA
Psychol Bull 135:69-93. 2009..The authors conclude with suggestions for future research... 
Rumination, emotion, and forgiveness: three longitudinal studiesMichael E McCullough
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124 0751, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 92:490-505. 2007....- Rumination, fear, and cortisol: an in vivo study of interpersonal transgressionsMichael E McCullough
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124 0751, USA
Health Psychol 26:126-32. 2007..Rumination about even moderately painful but nontraumatic life events and associated emotions are related to biological changes that may subserve social goals such as avoiding social threats. Items from the rumination scale are appended... - Writing about the benefits of an interpersonal transgression facilitates forgivenessMichael E McCullough
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 74:887-97. 2006..The Transgression-Related Interpersonal Motivations Inventory--18-Item Version (TRIM-18) is appended... - The varieties of religious development in adulthood: a longitudinal investigation of religion and rational choiceMichael E McCullough
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 89:78-89. 2005..Gender, strength of religious upbringing, number of children, marrying, and agreeableness predicted membership in the trajectory classes. Results were largely consistent with the rational choice theory of religious involvement... - Religiousness and the trajectory of self-rated health across adulthoodMichael E McCullough
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, P O Box 248185, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 31:560-73. 2005.... - Gender and the natural history of self-rated health: a 59-year longitudinal studyMichael E McCullough
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124 0751, USA
Health Psychol 23:651-5. 2004..Men had higher self-rated health throughout most of adulthood than did women but had steeper linear rates of decline. As a result, the gender difference in self-rated health disappeared by late adulthood... - Personality traits in adolescence as predictors of religiousness in early adulthood: findings from the Terman Longitudinal StudyMichael E McCullough
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124 2070, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 29:980-91. 2003.... - Forgiveness, forbearance, and time: the temporal unfolding of transgression-related interpersonal motivationsMichael E McCullough
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, New, York, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 84:540-57. 2003..The distinctiveness of each of these 3 parameters underscores the importance of studying forgiveness temporally... - Gratitude in intermediate affective terrain: links of grateful moods to individual differences and daily emotional experienceMichael E McCullough
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124 0751, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 86:295-309. 2004..In addition, gratitude as an affective trait appeared to render participants' grateful moods somewhat resistant to the effects of discrete emotional episodes of gratitude... - Narcissists as "Victims": the role of narcissism in the perception of transgressionsMichael E McCullough
University of Miami, Coral, Gables, FL 33124 2070, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 29:885-93. 2003..The exploitiveness/entitlement dimension of narcissism may be particularly useful for explaining why narcissistic people report higher rates of interpersonal transgressions in their daily lives... - Conciliatory gestures facilitate forgiveness and feelings of friendship by making transgressors appear more agreeableBenjamin A Tabak
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124 0751, USA
J Pers 80:503-36. 2012..Results suggest that conciliatory gestures promote forgiveness in part by depicting transgressors as more sympathetic, considerate, fair, and just (i.e., agreeable)... - The grateful disposition: a conceptual and empirical topographyMichael E McCullough
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275 0442, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 82:112-27. 2002..Neuroticism/negative affectivity, and Agreeableness. The development of the Gratitude Questionnaire, a unidimensional measure with good psychometric properties, is also described... - Forgiveness, feeling connected to others, and well-being: two longitudinal studiesGiacomo Bono
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124 0751, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 34:182-95. 2008..However, changes in feelings of closeness toward the partner appeared to account for the associations of forgiveness with well-being, but not vice versa... - Counting blessings versus burdens: an experimental investigation of gratitude and subjective well-being in daily lifeRobert A Emmons
Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis 95616, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 84:377-89. 2003..The effect on positive affect appeared to be the most robust finding. Results suggest that a conscious focus on blessings may have emotional and interpersonal benefits... 
Evaluation of enzyme immunoassay and radioimmunoassay methods for the measurement of plasma oxytocinAngela Szeto
Behavioral Medicine Research Center and Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA
Psychosom Med 73:393-400. 2011....- Perceived transgressor agreeableness decreases cortisol response and increases forgiveness following recent interpersonal transgressionsBenjamin A Tabak
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
Biol Psychol 87:386-92. 2011..Participants' own agreeableness and neuroticism had negligible associations with cortisol response and forgiveness over time... - Oxytocin indexes relational distress following interpersonal harms in womenBenjamin A Tabak
Department of Psychology and Behavioral Medicine Research Center, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
Psychoneuroendocrinology 36:115-22. 2011.... - Forgiveness and justice: a research agenda for social and personality psychologyJulie Juola Exline
Department of Psychology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Rev 7:337-48. 2003..For each question, we briefly review representative research, raise hypotheses, and suggest specific ways in which social and personality psychologists could make distinctive contributions... - Dimensions of religiosity and their relationship to lifetime psychiatric and substance use disordersKenneth S Kendler
Virginia Institute for Psychiatry and Behavioral Genetics and Department of Psychiatry and Human Genetics, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond 23298 0126, USA
Am J Psychiatry 160:496-503. 2003..This study used data from a general population sample to clarify the dimensions of religiosity and the relationships of these dimensions to risk for lifetime psychiatric and substance use disorders... - Religiousness and depression: evidence for a main effect and the moderating influence of stressful life eventsTimothy B Smith
Department of Counseling Psychology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602 5093, USA
Psychol Bull 129:614-36. 2003..g., avoiding difficulties through religious activities, blaming God for difficulties) associated with higher levels of depressive symptoms, the opposite direction of the overall findings... - Modeling the effects of spirituality/religion on patients' perceptions of living with HIV/AIDSMagdalena Szaflarski
Institute for the Study of Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45267 0840, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:S28-38. 2006..Spirituality/religion is an important factor in health and illness, but more work is needed to determine its link to quality of life in patients with HIV/AIDS... - Responses to interpersonal transgressions in families: forgivingness, forgivability, and relationship-specific effectsWilliam T Hoyt
Department of Counseling Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 1398, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 89:375-94. 2005..The findings point to the need to embed the study of forgiveness in more complex psychosocial contexts. The theoretical, methodological, and applied implications of this conclusion are discussed...
Research Grants
- Aversive Interpersonal Events, Psychopathology, and HealthMichael McCullough; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..