DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY

Research Interests

Narrative psychology. The development of a life-story model of human identity. Generativity and adult development. Themes of power, intimacy, and redemption in human lives. Modernity and the self. Autobiographical memory. Psychological biography.

Selected Publications

McAdams, D. P.  (2023).  The comforter-in-chief:  How two traumatic experiences shaped President Joe Biden’s first 100 days.  Journal of Personality, 91, 247-261.

McAdams, D. P., & Dunlop, W. L.  (2022).  The person:  A new introduction to personality psychology (6^th Ed.).  New York:  Wiley.

McAdams, D. P., Logan, R. L., & Reischer, H. N.  (2022).  Beyond the redemptive self:  Narratives of acceptance in late life (and other contexts).  Journal of Research in Personality, 100, 104286.

McAdams, D. P.  (2020).  The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump:  A Psychological Reckoning.  New York:  Oxford University Press.

McLean, K. C., Syed, M., Pasupathi, M., Adler, J., Dunlop, W. L., Drustrup, D., Fivush, R., Graci, M., Lilgendahl, J. P., Lodi-Smith, J., McAdams, D. P., & McCoy, T.  (2020).  The empirical structure of narrative identity:  The initial Big Three.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119, 920-944. 

McAdams, D. P.  (2019).  First we invented stories, then they changed us:  The evolution of narrative identity.  Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, 3, 1-18.

McAdams, D. P., Shiner, R. L., & Tackett, J. L.  (Eds.).  (2019).  The handbook of personality development.  New York:  Guilford Press.

McAdams, D. P.  (2015).  The art and science of personality development.  New York:  Guilford Press.

McAdams, D. P., & Guo, J.  (2015).  Narrating the generative life.  Psychological Science, 26, 475-483.

McAdams, D. P.  (2013).  The psychological self as actor, agent, and author.  Perspectives on Psychological Science, 8, 272-295.