Michael Earl McCullough
American psychologist (born 1969)
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Michael Earl McCullough[1] (born July 27, 1969) is an American psychologist. He is a professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego since 2019.[2]
Virginia Commonwealth University (MS, PhD)
Michael Earl McCullough | |
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| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | University of Florida (BS) Virginia Commonwealth University (MS, PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Social psychology |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Forgiveness as altruism: A social-psychological theory of interpersonal forgiveness and tests of its validity (1995) |
| Website | michael-mccullough.com |
McCullough received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Florida in 1990. He received a Master of Science in 1992 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1995, both in psychology and from Virginia Commonwealth University.[3] His doctoral dissertation was in social psychology and titled Forgiveness as altruism: A social-psychological theory of interpersonal forgiveness and tests of its validity (1995).[1]
He is the author of The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code (Basic Books, 2020) and Beyond Revenge: The Evolution of the Forgiveness Instinct (2008, Jossey-Bass).
