Pathology Richard J. McNally (born April 17, 1954) is an American psychologist and director of clinical training at Harvard University's department of psychology.

McNally received his clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship at Temple University's behavioral therapy unit.

McNally is on the Institute for Scientific Information's "highly cited" list for psychology and psychiatry (top 0.5% of authors worldwide in terms of citation impact).

McNally's early research revolved much around psycho-physiological experiments involving Pavlovian fear conditioning tests of the preparedness theory of phobias.

A second early emphasis concerned conceptual, empirical, and psychometric work on the Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI), a dispositional measure of the fear of anxiety-related symptoms.

[citation needed] Other publications on various controversies concern the epidemiology of PTSD, psychological debriefing following trauma recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse, cognitive and psychophysiology studies on people reporting having been abducted by space aliens or claiming to have memories from their “past lives”, and research on the emotional impact of “trigger warnings” akin to those increasingly common in academia.