Randy J. McCarthy

Northern Illinois University — United States

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

25h-index2.8kcitations184works2.52yr avg
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Research Topics

Social and Intergroup Psychology(23), Child Abuse and Trauma(20), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment(20), Behavioral Health and Interventions(18), Mental Health Research Topics(14)

Publications173 total

Cues and Clues: How Humor Targets Classify Joker Intent
Psychological Reports·2025
Validity and Transparency in Quantifying Open-Ended Data
Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science·2024· 10 citedOpen Access
Author response for "Validity and Transparency in Quantifying Open-Ended Data"
2024
Author response for "Validity and Transparency in Quantifying Open-Ended Data"
2024
Validity and Transparency in Quantifying Open-Ended Data
2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Job Satisfaction and Receiving Prosocial Workplace Behaviors Among Rehabilitation Counselors
Rehabilitation counselors & educators journal·2023· 3 citedOpen Access
Do perpetrators and victims rely on different information when judging whether aggressive behaviors are justified?
Aggressive Behavior·2023· 2 cited
Perpetrators’ folk explanations of their regretted and justified aggressive behaviors
The Journal of Social Psychology·2023
Perpetrators’ and Victims’ Folk Explanations of Aggressive Behaviors and Desires for Apologies
Collabra Psychology·2023Open Access
Child physical abuse risk factors: A systematic review and a meta-analysis
2022· 29 citedOpen Access
In COVID-19 Health Messaging, Loss Framing Increases Anxiety with Little-to-No Concomitant Benefits: Experimental Evidence from 84 Countries
Affective Science·2022· 46 citedOpen Access
Perpetrators’, Victims’, and Witnesses’ Folk Explanations of Aggressive Behaviors
Psychological Reports·2022· 4 cited
Folk Explanations of Aggressive Behaviors
2022Open Access
Child physical abuse risk factors: A systematic review and a meta-analysis
Aggression and Violent Behavior·2022· 57 cited
Reflections on a 30-Year-Long Program of Research Exploring Perceivers' Spontaneous Thoughts about Social Targets
2022· 2 cited
Is the victim-perpetrator asymmetry stronger in situations where blame is being assigned?
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology·2022· 4 cited
Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) 2021 Meeting
OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints)·2021
Broad Agreement, But Notes of Caution With the Implications of Sakaluk’s (2020) Critique of Wisman and Shrira (2020)
Archives of Sexual Behavior·2021· 3 citedOpen Access
Does Trait Hostility Moderate the Asymmetry in Victim-Perpetrator Perceptions of Aggressive Behaviors?
Psychological Reports·2021· 8 cited
A Multi-Site Collaborative Study of the Hostile Priming Effect
Collabra Psychology·2021· 10 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Joel S. Milner(14), John J. Skowronski(12), Julie L. Crouch(7), Mandy M. Rabenhorst(7), Wendy J. Travis(7), Charles R. Ebersole(6), Wolf Vanpaemel(6), Balázs Aczél(5), Christopher R. Chartier(5), Sau-Chin Chen(4), Daniel J. Dunleavy(4), Brian D. Earp(4), Gerit Pfuhl(4), Miguel A. Vadillo(4), Ignazio Ziano(4), Ernest Baskin(4), Pavol Kačmár(4), Asil Ali Özdoğru(4), Vidar Schei(4), Stefan Stieger(4)