| What are punishment and reputation for? MM Krasnow, L Cosmides, EJ Pedersen, J Tooby Public Library of Science 7 (9), e45662, 2012 | 203 | 2012 |
| Do humans really punish altruistically? A closer look EJ Pedersen, R Kurzban, ME McCullough Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280 (1758), 20122723, 2013 | 192 | 2013 |
| Re‐examination of Oostenbroek et al.(2016): Evidence for neonatal imitation of tongue protrusion AN Meltzoff, L Murray, E Simpson, M Heimann, E Nagy, J Nadel, ... Developmental science 21 (4), e12609, 2018 | 144 | 2018 |
| Harsh childhood environmental characteristics predict exploitation and retaliation in humans ME McCullough, EJ Pedersen, JM Schroder, BA Tabak, CS Carver Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280 (1750), 2013 | 126 | 2013 |
| Politicians polarize and experts depolarize public support for COVID-19 management policies across countries A Flores, JC Cole, S Dickert, K Eom, GM Jiga-Boy, T Kogut, R Loria, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (3), e2117543119, 2022 | 124 | 2022 |
| Conciliatory gestures promote forgiveness and reduce anger in humans ME McCullough, EJ Pedersen, BA Tabak, EC Carter Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (30), 11211-11216, 2014 | 119 | 2014 |
| The unresponsive avenger: More evidence that disinterested third parties do not punish altruistically. EJ Pedersen, WHB McAuliffe, ME McCullough Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 147 (4), 514, 2018 | 100 | 2018 |
| Cooperation: The roles of interpersonal value and gratitude A Smith, EJ Pedersen, DE Forster, ME McCullough, D Lieberman Evolution and Human Behavior 38 (6), 695-703, 2017 | 98 | 2017 |
| Benefit valuation predicts gratitude DE Forster, EJ Pedersen, A Smith, ME McCullough, D Lieberman Evolution and Human Behavior 38 (1), 18-26, 2017 | 71 | 2017 |
| Variation in oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) polymorphisms is associated with emotional and behavioral reactions to betrayal BA Tabak, ME McCullough, CS Carver, EJ Pedersen, ML Cuccaro Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 9 (6), 810-816, 2014 | 50 | 2014 |
| When and why do third parties punish outside of the lab? A cross-cultural recall study EJ Pedersen, WHB McAuliffe, Y Shah, H Tanaka, Y Ohtsubo, ... Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1948550619884565, 2019 | 42 | 2019 |
| Does cooperation in the laboratory reflect the operation of a broad trait? WHB McAuliffe, DE Forster, EJ Pedersen, ME McCullough European Journal of Personality 33 (1), 89-103, 2019 | 42 | 2019 |
| Reassessing intertemporal choice: human decision-making is more optimal in a foraging task than in a self-control task EC Carter, EJ Pedersen, ME McCullough Frontiers in psychology 6, 95, 2015 | 35 | 2015 |
| Testing the arousal hypothesis of neonatal imitation in infant rhesus macaques A Paukner, EJ Pedersen, EA Simpson PLoS One 12 (6), e0178864, 2017 | 34 | 2017 |
| Flexible approaches for estimating partial eta squared in mixed-effects models with crossed random factors J Correll, C Mellinger, EJ Pedersen Behavior Research Methods, 1-17, 2022 | 33 | 2022 |
| The sex premium in religiously motivated moral judgment. LSE Hone, TG McCauley, EJ Pedersen, EC Carter, ME McCullough Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 120 (6), 1621, 2021 | 29 | 2021 |
| Experience with anonymous interactions reduces intuitive cooperation WHB McAuliffe, DE Forster, EJ Pedersen, ME McCullough Nature human behaviour 2 (12), 909-914, 2018 | 28 | 2018 |
| When election expectations fail: polarized perceptions of election legitimacy increase with accumulating evidence of election outcomes and with polarized media MD Grant, A Flores, EJ Pedersen, DK Sherman, L Van Boven Plos one 16 (12), e0259473, 2021 | 27 | 2021 |
| Evaluating benefits, costs, and social value as predictors of gratitude DE Forster, EJ Pedersen, ME McCullough, D Lieberman Psychological Science 33 (4), 538-549, 2022 | 25 | 2022 |
| Life history, code of honor, and emotional responses to inequality in an economic game. EJ Pedersen, DE Forster, ME McCullough Emotion 14 (5), 920, 2014 | 24 | 2014 |
Michael McCulloughUniversity of California, San DiegoVerified email at ucsd.edu
