Michael Earl McCullough

Michael Earl McCullough
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materUniversity of Florida (BS)
Virginia Commonwealth University (MS, PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsSocial psychology
Institutions
ThesisForgiveness as altruism: A social-psychological theory of interpersonal forgiveness and tests of its validity (1995)
Websitemichael-mccullough.com

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]

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).

References

  1. ^ a b McCullough, Michael Earl (1995). "Forgiveness as altruism: A social-psychological theory of interpersonal forgiveness and tests of its validity". ProQuest.
  2. ^ "Michael McCullough". psychology.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2025-11-15.
  3. ^ McCullough, Michael E. (2025-03-04). "Michael E. McCullough – Curriculum Vitae – March 4, 2025". michael-mccullough.com. Archived from the original on 2025-11-15. Retrieved 2025-11-15.