Dr. Muhammad Mussaffa Butt is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Government College University, Lahore. He earned his PhD in Psychology from GCU, where his experimental work was conducted in collaboration with Professor Glyn Humphreys at the University of Oxford. He later completed a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Birmingham, UK, under Professor Heather Flowe, focusing on eyewitness memory and forensic cognition. His research and teaching integrate themes of interpersonal acceptance-rejection, emotion regulation, substance use, and forensic psychology, bridging social, cognitive, and clinical perspectives. Dr. Butt has established multiple international collaborations. He is a participating member of Rohner Center (UCONN, US), and continues to contribute to cross-cultural research networks on psychological adjustment and interpersonal relationships. He has over 25 publications in top journals (e.g. Nature Human Behaviour), serves on several academic committees, and supervises advanced research in personality, emotion, and maladjustment. His academic leadership extends to curriculum development and program coordination, reflecting a strong commitment to advancing psychological science in Pakistan and globally.
| From | To | Designation | Firm/Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2019 | Aug 2020 | Postdoctoral Fellow | Univesity Of Birmingham, UK |
| Sep 2017 | Continue | Assistant Professor | Government College University, Lahore |
| Apr 2012 | Mar 2017 | Lecturer | Government College University, Lahore |
| Oct 2007 | Apr 2012 | Coordination Officer/Lecturer | COMSATS, Lahore |
| May 2006 | Sep 2007 | E-Lecturer | Virtual University Of Pakistan |
| Butt, M.M., Rohner, R.P., Abreu, R.L. (2025). "Best Friends’ Acceptance Moderates the Effects of Parental Rejection on Psychological Wellbeing Among Transgender Women in Pakistan." Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, , . DOI: 10.1037/sgd0000897 | Impact Factor: 3.9 | |
| Butt, M.M., Altaf, A., Ashdown, B.K. & Rohner, R.P (2025). "How memories of childhood parental rejection and maladjustment predict academic performance among adults with special needs." British Journal of Special Education, 3 (52), 440-448. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8578.70044 | Impact Factor: 1.4 | |
| Buchanan, E.M., Cuccolo, K., Heyman, T., Niels van Berkel, Coles, N.A., Iyer, A., Peters, K., Anna E. van ’t Veer, Montefinese, M., Maxwell, N.P., Taylor, J.E., Valentine, K.D., Arriaga, P., Barzykowski, K., Boucher, L., Collins, W.M., Vasidis, D.C., A (2025). "Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages." Nature Human Behaviour, , 1–20. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02254-x | Impact Factor: 15.9 | |
| Butt, M. M., Melendez‐Rhodes, T., & Rohner, R. P. (2025). "Memories of Parental Rejection in Childhood and Current Psychological Maladjustment Predict Men's Problems Recognising Facial Expressions of Emotion." International Journal of Psychology, 60 (2), e70024.. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.70024 | Impact Factor: 1.6 | |
| Ingham, M.P., Gibbs, B.D., Colloff, M.F., Stevens, L.M., Edwards, O.M., Rockowitz, S.R., Hayre, R.K., Butt, M.M., Morris, C.A. and Flowe, H.D. (2025). "The Effects of Acute Alcohol Intoxication on Metamemory Processes and Accuracy When Recalling a Rape Scenario.." Applied Cognitive Psychology, 39 , e70038. DOI: . https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70038 | Impact Factor: 1.8 | |
| Butt, M. M., Rohner, R. P., & Zaki, N. M (2024). "Adults' memories of parental acceptance–rejection in childhood and psychological (mal)adjustment predict forgiveness and vengeance." Infant and Child Development, , e2511. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2511 | Impact Factor: 2.9 | |
| Butt, M. M., Naveed, A., & Qayyum, S. (2024). "Blended Learning, Learning Motivation, and Academic Performance in Undergraduate Science Students." IUB Journal of Social Sciences, 6 (1), 36-49. DOI: https://doi.org/10.52461/ijoss.v6i1.2884 | |
| Malik, F., Faran, M., Butt, M.M. (2024). "Remembered Parental Acceptance-Rejection and Fear of Intimacy in Married and Unmarried Men and Women in Pakistan." IUB Journal of Social Sciences, , . | |
| Buchanan, E.M., Lewis, S.C., Paris, B., Forscher, P.S., Pavlacic, J.M., Beshears, J.E., Drexler, S.M., Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, A., Mallik, P.R., Silan, M. A.A., Miller, J.K., Ijzerman, H., Beaudry, J.L., Suchow, J.W., Chartier, C.R., Coles. N.A., Todsen, A.L. (2023). "Psychological Science Accelerator's COVID-19 Rapid-Response Dataset." Scientific Data, 10 (1), 87. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01811-7 | Impact Factor: 6 | |
| Ali, S., Butt, M.M., Rohner, R.P (2023). "Relations Among Parental Acceptance-Rejection and Forgiveness and Vengeance: A Comparison Between Pakistani Madrassa and Public School Students." The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 185 (3), 167-180. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00221325.2023.2292036 | Impact Factor: 1.8 | |
| Chattha, A. H., & Butt, M. M (2023). "Suicidal Ideation and Its Correlates among Medical and Engineering Students: A Comparative Study." Journal of Social Sciences Review, 3 (1), 727-736. DOI: https://doi.org/10.54183/jssr.v3i1.220 | |
| Psychological Science Accelerator Self-Determination Theory Collaboration (2022). "A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (2), e2111091119.. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2111091119 | Impact Factor: 11.1 | |
| Aftab, A., Cheema, I.U., Butt, M.M. (2022). "Conflict Management Styles, Organizational Citizenship Behaviour and Counterproductive Work Behaviour In Industry Workers." Webology, 19 (3), 1128-1143. | |
| Aftab, A., Elahi, A.R., Butt, M.M (2022). "Factual Autonomy Predict Organizational Citizenship Behaviour and Counterproductive Work Behaviour in Industry Workers Mediated by Burnout." Journal of Development and Social Sciences, 3 (2), 485-497. DOI: http://doi.org/10.47205/jdss.2022(3-II)46 | |
| Dorison, C.A., Lerner, J.S., Heller, B.H., Rothman, A.J., Kawachi, I.I., Wang, K., Rees, V.W., Gill, B.P., Gibbs, N., Ebersole, C.R., Vally, Z., Tajchman, Z., Zsido, A.N., Zrimseck, M., Chen, Z., Ziano, I., Gialitaki, Z., Ceary, C.D., Jang, Y.,…Butt, M.M. (2022). "In COVID-19 Health Messaging, Loss Framing Increases Anxiety with Little-to-No Concomitant Benefits: Experimental Evidence from 84 Countries." Affective Science, 3 , 557-602. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-022-00128-3 | Impact Factor: 2.2 | |
| Butt, M.M., Watson, R.J., Rohner, R.P., Malik, F (2022). "Memories of Parental Rejection in Childhood and Current Psychological Maladjustment Predict Substance Abuse in a Collectivist Religious Country." Journal of Child and Family Studies, 31 , 2608-2617. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-022-02323-z | Impact Factor: 2.4 | |
| Kovacs, M., Protzko, J., Nagy, T., Kekecs, Z., Palfi, B., Adamkovič, M., Adamus, S., Albalooshi, S., Albyrak-Aydemir, N., Alper, S., Solas, S.S., Alves, S., Amaya, S., Anderson, P., Anjum, G., Ansari, D., Arriaga, P., Aruta, J.J.B., Arvanitis, A., ...Butt (2022). "Situational factors shape moral judgments in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern, and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample." Nature Human Behaviour, , 1-16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01319-5 | Impact Factor: 24.3 | |
| Ali, M., & Butt, M. M. (2022). "Spiritual well-being, resilience, and life satisfaction in general and religious education institutes." UCP Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, 1 (1), 27-71. DOI: http://ojs.ucp.edu.pk/index.php/jhss/article/view/5 | |
| Wang K., Goldenberg A., Dorison, C.A., Miller, J.K., Uusberg, A., Lerner, J.S., Gross, J.J., Agesin, B.B., Bernardo, M., Campos, O., Eudave, L., Grzech, K., Ozery, D.H., Jackson, E.A., Luis Garcia, E.O., Drexler, S.M., Jurković, A.P., Rana, K.,.. Butt, M. (2021). "A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic." Nature Human Behaviour, 5 , 1089-1110. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01173-x | Impact Factor: 24.3 | |
| Butt, M. M., Colloff, M. F., Magner, E., & Flowe, H. D. (2020). "Eyewitness memory in the news can affect the strategic regulation of memory reporting." Memory, 30 (6), 763-774. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2020.1846750 | Impact Factor: 2.3 | |
| Rohner, R. P., Putnick, D. L., Molaver, A. D., Ali, S., Butt, M. M., Ibrahim, D. M., Aurino, C., Blom, M.J.M., Darwesh, F.H., Auricchio, S., Radha, A.H., Miranda, M.C., Adamsons, K., Senese, V.P. (2020). "Psychological maladjustment mediates the link between remembrances of parental rejection in childhood and loneliness in adulthood: A cross‐cultural comparative study." International Journal of Psychology, 55 (4), 590-600. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12621 | Impact Factor: 3.4 | |
| Walayat, S., & Butt, M.M. (2017) (2017). "Parental acceptance-rejection, childhood trauma, emotion regulation, and psychological adjustment as the risk factors of psychopathic tendencies in adolescents of Pakistan." International Journal of Business and Social Research, 7 (5), . | |
| Walayat, S., & Butt, M.M. (2017) (2017). "Parental acceptance-rejection, childhood trauma, emotion regulation, and psychological adjustment as the risk factors of psychopathic tendencies in adolescents of Pakistan." International Journal of Business and Social Research, 7 (5), . | |
| Butt, M. M., Malik, F., & Hoffmann, H. (2015). "Emotion Recognition in Individuals with Substance Use Disorder." Journal of Behavioural Sciences, 25 (2), 47-64. | |
| Malik, F., Butt, M. M., Kausar, R., Najam, N., & Rasool, F (2014). "Parental Acceptance and Power/Prestige as Predictors of Psychological Adjustment Among Pakistani Adolescents." Cross-Cultural Research, 48 (3), 278-285. DOI: https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/CCR | Impact Factor: 2.6 |
| International Conference on ‘Health and Wellbeing’ (2017), LCWU. Lahore. Hassan, Z., & Butt, M.M.. , Paper: "Perceived parental acceptance-rejection and psychological adjustment in girls with and without male siblings" | |
| The 6th International Congress on Interpersonal Acceptance-Rejection (2016), ISIPAR Scociety, UCONN, US. Madrid, Spain. Butt, M. M., Ali, S., & Rohner, R. P. , Paper: "Psychological Adjustment Mediates the Relation between Remembrances of Parental Acceptance-Rejection in Childhood and the Level of Adults’ Loneliness in Pakistan" | |
| International Conference of Applied Psychology (ICAPP) (2012), Department of Applied Psychology, University of Punjab, and Psychology Subcommittee of HEC’s CDSSHP. PU, Lahore. Butt, M.M. , Paper: "Perception of Interparental Conflicts and Emotion Regulation" | |
| One Day Muslim Psychology Conference on “Hope for Better Tomorrow (2012), Society for Advancement of Muslim Psychology & Fountain House. Lahore, Pakistan. Butt, M.M.. , Paper: "Jadeed Nafsiyat aur Islami Nukta e Nazar" | |
| First International Conference on “Forensic Psychology: Issues and Interventions (2010), Department of Psychology, GCU, Lahore. GCU, Lahore. Butt, M.M., Malik, F.. , Paper: "Emotion Recognition among Drug Addicts" |
| • Punjab Higher Education Commission (PHEC) Foreign Post-Doctoral Fellowships Program FY 2017-2018 (PHASE III) (2017), Punjab Higher Education Commission (PHEC). Punjab Higher Education Commission (PHEC) Foreign Post-Doctoral Fellowships Program FY 2017-2018 (PHASE III), for 9-12 Months at University of Birmingham, UK with Prof. Heather Flowe, September 6, 2019, to August 31, 2020. | |
| • International Research Support Initiative Program (IRSIP) (2015), Higher Education Commission of Pakistan. • International Research Support Initiative Program (IRSIP) Scholarship [Higher Education Commission, Government of Pakistan] for 6 months internship at University of Oxford, UK with Professor Glyn Humphreys (late), March 24, 2015, to September 03, 2015 |
| Luqman Answer (2024), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Cognitive flexibility, resilience and quality of life in young adults" (Completed) | |
| Asad Iqbal (2024), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Compassion for self, others and positive and negative affect among young adults" (Completed) | |
| Alishba Saleem (2023), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Job Satisfaction, Job performance, work-life balance, and workplace stress among textile mill employees" (Completed) | |
| Ahmed Altaf (2023), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Parental acceptanc-rejection, academic achievement and psychological adjustment among children and young adults with special needs" (Completed) | |
| Maham Jamil (2023), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Work experience, psychological well-being, job satisfaction and job performance among tourism employees" (Completed) | |
| Mahnoor Zahra (2023), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Superstitious beliefs, personality traits, perceived stress in university students" (Completed) | |
| Laraib Aslam (2023), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Personality traits, achievement motivation, career decision making, and psychological well-being among young adults" (Completed) | |
| Saba Ahsan Malik (2022), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Job stress, burnout, job satisfaction and job performance of employees in the fertilization sector" (Completed) | |
| Iqra Kashaf (2022), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Marital satisfaction, emotional wellbeing, job satisfaction and life satisfaction of working women" (Completed) | |
| Tariq Nadeem (2022), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Emotional Intelligence, subjective wellbeing and organizational commitment of medical sales representatives" (Completed) | |
| Nabila Ikram (2022), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Job embeddedness, organizational citizenship behaviour and innovative work behaviour in pharmaceutical companies" (Completed) | |
| Zeeshan Bashir (2022), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Self-esteem, academic hopefulness, educational self-efficacy and academic achievement in adolescents" (Completed) | |
| Mehwish Zulfiqar (2022), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Effect of Emotional Intelligence, Psychological Wellbeing on Job Burnout, mediated by Work Engagement among College Teachers" (Completed) | |
| Ayesha Naveed (2021), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Blended Learning Influence on Learning Motivation and Academic Achievement" (Completed) | |
| Seema Nasir (2021), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Dark Triad, Perceived Supervisor Acceptance - Rejection, Organizational Citizenship Behaviour and Counterproductive Work Behaviours" (Completed) | |
| Seema Nasir (2021), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Dark Triad, Perceived Supervisor Acceptance - Rejection, Organizational Citizenship Behaviour and Counterproductive Work Behaviours" (Completed) | |
| Amna Yousaf (2021), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Perceived Social Support, Coping Strategies and Life Satisfaction among University Students during COVID-19 Pandemic" (Completed) | |
| Maryam Nadeem (2021), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Impulsivity, Internet gaming addiction, Dark triad and Suicidal Ideation among Pakistani adolescents and young adults" (Completed) | |
| Sadia Naeem (2020), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Impact of parental acceptance-rejection on psychological adjustment, vengeance and forgiveness" (Completed) | |
| Misbah Rubab (2018), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Perceived Parental Acceptance-Rejection and Self-Assertiveness in Adolescents and Young Adults" (Completed) | |
| Sehrish Mukhtar (2018), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Quality of Work, Job Embeddedness, Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Turnover Intention in Employees of Service and Goods Industries" (Completed) | |
| Javeria Shahid (2018), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Correlates of Academic Achievement in Under-Graduate and Post-Graduate Students" (Completed) | |
| Rimza Arif (2018), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Organizational Socialization, Organizational Commitment, Job Satisfaction and Turnover Intention in the Employees of Telecom Sector" (Completed) | |
| Javeria Pervez (2018), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Depressive Systems, Social Anxiety and Weight Base Discrimination Among Obese People" (Completed) | |
| Iqra Idrees (2018), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Perceived Parental Acceptance-Rejection Alexithymia, Psychological Adjustment and Procrastination Among Adolescents and Young Adults" (Completed) | |
| Anum Rashid (2018), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Self-Esteem, Emotional Regulation, Life Satisfaction and Academic Performance in University Students" (Completed) | |
| Rawish Irfan (2018), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Correlates of Work Motivation in Bank Employees" (Completed) | |
| Nafeesa Qasim (2018), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Death Anxiety, Life Satisfaction and Aging" (Completed) | |
| Ayesha Ayub (2018), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Perceived Parental and Best Friend Acceptance-Rejection, Self-Esteem and Psychological Adjustment in Adolescents and Young Adults" (Completed) | |
| Sadia Anwar (2017), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Coping With Retrospection of Perceived Parental Rejection in Childhood and Intimate Partner Acceptance-Rejection" (Completed) | |
| Ayesha Aftab (2017), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Correlates of Organizational Citizenship Behaviour in Employees of National and Multinational Companies" (Completed) | |
| Rabia Rashid (2017), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Correlates of Organizational Commitment and Burnout In Middle Level Employees in The Commercial Banks of Pakistan" (Completed) | |
| Rabia Hanif (2017), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Happiness, Loneliness, Emotional Regulation, Self-Efficacy, Self-Consciousness & Life Satisfaction among Clinical & Non-clinical Population" (Completed) | |
| Mahwish Liaqat (2017), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Intimate Partner Acceptance-Rejection, Psychological Adjustment and Severity of Dependence in Individuals with Substance Use Disorder" (Completed) | |
| Ammara SanaUllah (2017), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Perceived Parental, Teacher and Best Friend Acceptance-Rejection, Psychological Adjustment and Life Satisfaction in Hostalied Students" (Completed) | |
| Amina Farrukh (2017), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Self-Esteem, Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment in Disabled and Able-bodied Employees" (Completed) | |
| Fiza Ikram (2016), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Psychological Capital, Job Satisfaction, Burnout and Satisfaction with Life in Pakistani Employees" (Completed) | |
| Maryam Azmat (2016), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Perception of Justice, Employee Empowerment, Organization Culture, and its Effect on Employee’s Turnover" (Completed) | |
| Sadaf Saleem (2016), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Psychological Empowerment, Individual Readiness for Change in Relation to Organizational Citizenship Behaviour in Employees of Corporate Sector" (Completed) | |
| Nayab Sikandar (2016), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Role of Future Time Perspective in Coping Behaviour, Life Satisfaction and psychological adjustment in orphans and non-orphan" (Completed) | |
| Sidra Bashir (2016), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Emotional Regulation, Burnout and Quality of Life of Doctors and Nurses" (Completed) | |
| Aleena Chaudhry (2016), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Childhood Perception of Interparental Conflicts, Childhood Trauma, Life Satisfaction and Alexithymia" (Completed) | |
| Iqra Mehmood (2016), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Why I decided to Part Ways with my Husband!" (Completed) | |
| Saher Ilyas (2015), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Human Resource Management Practices, Organizational Citizenship Behaviour and Turnover" (Completed) | |
| Saba Walayat (2014), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "51. Parental Acceptance-Rejection and Childhood Trauma as the Risk Factors for Psychological Adjustment and Psychopathic Tendencies in Adolescents of Pakistan" (Completed) | |
| Farina Sanam (2014), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Perceived Family Acceptance-Rejection in Psychological Adjustment of Adolescents" (Completed) | |
| Hafsa Riaz (2014), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Psychological Adjustment and Personality Traits in ‘Khawajasaras’" (Completed) | |
| Shahbano Sheharyar (2014), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Spousal Acceptance and Conflict Resolution Strategies in Socio-Cultural Context of Pakistan" (Completed) | |
| Sana Fatima (2014), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Gender Differences in Psychological Adjustment and Life Satisfaction in Old Age Widowhood" (Completed) | |
| Maryam Farooq (2014), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Burnout, Psychological Adjustment and Organization Citizenship Behaviour in Banks" (Completed) | |
| Bushra Fazeelat (2014), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Emotional Labour, Psychological Adjustment and Job Satisfaction in Hospitality Staff" (Completed) |
