The Study of Lives Research Group

McAdams, D. P., Trzesniewski, K., Lilgendahl, J. L., Benet-Martinez, V., & Robins, R. W.  (2021).  Self and identity in personality psychology.  Personality Science, 2, e6035.

Cowan, H. R., Mittal, V. A., & McAdams, D. P.  (2021).  Narrative identity in the psychosis spectrum:  A systematic review and developmental model.  Clinical Psychology Review, 88, 102067.

Reischer, H. N., Roth, L. J., Villarreal, J. A., & McAdams, D. P.  (2021).  Self-transcendence in late-midlife adult life stories:  Validity of the narrative approach.  Journal of Personality, 89, 305-324..

McAdams, D. P.  (2021).  Narrative identity and the life story.  In O. P. John and R. W. Robins (Eds.), Handbook of personality:  Theory and research (4^th Ed., pp. 122-141).  New York:  Guilford Press.

McAdams, D. P.  (2020).  Psychopathology and the self:  Human actors, agents, and authors.  Journal of Personality, 88, 146-155.

McAdams, D. P., & Cowan, H. R.  (2020).  Mimesis and myth:  Evolutionary origins of psychological self-understanding.  In J. Carroll, M. Clasen, and E. Jonsson (Eds.), Evolutionary perspectives on imaginative culture (pp. 93-108).  New York:  Springer.  

Reischer, H. N., Roth, L., Villarreal, J., & McAdams, D. P. (2020). Self-transcendence and life stories of humanistic growth among late-midlife adults. Journal of Personality. 00e1–20. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12583

Reischer, H. N. & Cowan, H. R. (2020). Quantity over quality? Reproducibility through a mixed methods lens. Collabra: Psychology. 6(1), 26. http://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.284

Coulter, T. J., Mallett, C. J., & McAdams, D. P.  (2020).  Personality assessment 1:  An integrative approach.  In D. Hackfort and R. J. Schinke (Eds.), Routledge international encylopedia of sport and exercise psychology.  Vol. 1:  Theoretical and methodological concepts (pp. 439-454).  London:  Routledge.

Greene, R. E., Cowan, H. R., & McAdams, D. P.  (2020).  Personality and coping in life challenge narratives. Journal of Research in Personality, 86, 103960.

McAdams, D. P.  (2020).  The strange case of Donald J. Trump:  A psychological reckoning. New York:  Oxford University Press.

McAdams, D. P.  (2020).  I understand the meaning of life – but what is the meaning of “meaning”?  Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, 4 (1), 39-41.

McAdams, D. P., & Perlin, J.  (2020).  HEXACO and the individual case.  European Journal of Personality, 34, 533-534.

McLean, K. C., Syed, M., Pasupathi, M., Adler, J., Dunlop, W., Drustrup, D., Fivush, R., Graci, M., Lilgendahl, J. L., 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. & Reischer, H. N. (2019). Rehabilitating Jung. Psychological Inquiry, 30(2), 83-86, http://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2019.1614810

Reischer, H. N. & Beverley, J. (2019). Diverse approaches to meaning-making at the end of life. American Journal of Bioethics, 19(12), 68–70. http://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2019.1674419

Adler, J. M.  (2019).  Stability and change in narrative identity:  Introduction to the special issue.  Qualitative Psychology, 6, 134-145.

Cowan, H. R.  (2019).  Can a good life be unsatisfying?  Within-person dynamics of life satisfaction and psychological well-being in late midlife.  Psychological Science, 30, 675-710.

Cowan, H. R., Chen, X., Jones, B. K., & McAdams, D. P.  (2019).  The single greatest life challenge:  How late-midlife adults construct narratives of significant personal challenges.  Journal of Research in Personality, 83, 103867.

Dunlop, W. L.  (2019).  From the story to the storyteller:  Life narratives from a personological perspective.  Qualitative Psychology, 6, 167-177.

Fivush, R., Habermas, T., & Reese, E.  (2019).  Retelling lives:  Narrative styles and stability of highly emotional events over time.  Qualitative Psychology, 6, 156-166.

Ko, H-J., Hooker, K., Manoogian, M. M., & McAdams, D. P.  (2019).  Transitions to older adulthood:  Exploring midlife women’s narratives regarding purpose in life.  International Journal of Positive Psychology and Well-being, Open Access.

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.  (2019).  Identity, narrative, language, culture, and the problem of variation in life stories.  Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, 3, 77-83.

McAdams, D. P.  (2019).  The emergence of personality.  In D. P. McAdams, R. L. Shiner, and J. L. Tackett (Eds.), Handbook of personality development (pp. 3-19).  New York:  Guilford Press.

McAdams, D. P.  (2019).  “I am what survives me”:  Generativity and the self.  In J. A. Frey and C. Vogler (Eds.), Self-transcendence and virtue:  Perspectives from philosophy, psychology, and theology (pp. 251-273).  London:  Routledge.

McAdams, D. P.  (2019).  Commentary:  Continuity and growth in the life story – or is it stagnation and flux?  Qualitative Psychology, 6, 206-214.

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

McLean, K. C., Syed, M., Pasupathi, M., Adler, J., Dunlop, W., Drustrup, D., Fivush, R., Graci, M., Lilgendahl, J., Lodi-Smith, J., McAdams, D. P., & McCoy, T.  (2019).  The empirical structure of narrative identity:  The initial Big Three.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 117.

McLean, K. C., Kober, C., & Haraldsson, K.  (2019).  The repeated narration of specific events and identity stability in midlife.  Qualitative Psychology, 6, 146-155.

Pasupathi, M., & Wainryb, C.  (2019).  Ghosts in the story:  The role of audience in stability and change in twice-told life stories.  Qualitative Psychology, 6, 178-193.

Singer, J. A.  (2019).  Repetition is the scent of the hunt:  A clinician’s application of narrative identity to a longitudinal life study.  Qualitative Psychology, 6, 194-205.

Jones, B. K., McAdams, D. P., & Destin, M.  (2018).  Telling better stories:  Competence-building narrative themes predict adolescent persistence and academic achievement.  Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 76, 76-80.

Lanning, K., Pauletti, R. E., King, L. A., & McAdams, D. P.  (2018).  Personality development through natural language.  Nature Human Behavior, 2, 327-334.

McAdams, D. P.  (2018).  Narrative identity:  What is it?  What does it do?  How do you measure it?  Imagination, Cognition, and Personality:  Consciousness in Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice, 37, 359-372.

McLean, K. C., Lilgendhahl, J., Fordham, C., Alpert, L., Marsden, E., Szymanowski, K., & McAdams, D. P.  (2018).  Identity development in cultural context:  The role of deviating from the mater narrative.  Journal of Personality, 86, 631-651.

Adler, J. M., Dunlop, W. L., Fivush, R., Lilgendahl, J., Lodi-Smith, J., McAdams, D. P., McLean, K. C., Pasupathi, M., & Syed, M.  (2017).  Research methods for studying narrative identity:  A primer.  Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8, 519-527.

Dunlop, W., Bannon, B., & McAdams, D. P.  (2017).  Studying the motivated agent over time:  Personal goal development during the adult life span.  Journal of Personality, 85, 207-219.

Harris, M.,  Donnellan, M. B., Guo, J., McAdams, D. P., Garnier-Villarreal, M., & Trzesniewski, K.  (2017).  Parental co-construction of 5-13-year-olds’ global self-esteem through reminiscing about past events.  Child Development, 88, 1810-1822.

Maher, A. H. C., Kleib, S., Loyer, E., Connelley, D., Radamaker, A. M., Mesulam, M., Weintraub, S., McAdams, D. P., Logan, R. L., & Rogalski, E.  (2017).  Psychological well-being in elderly adults with extraordinary episodic memory.  PLOS ONE, October 23.

Manczak, E. M., Levine, C. Ehrlich, K. Basu, D., McAdams, D. P., & Chen, E.  (2017).  Associations between spontaneous parental perspective taking and stimulated cytokine responses in children with asthma.  Health Psychology, 36, 652-661.

McAdams, D. P.  (2017).  The appeal of the primal leader:  Human evolution and Donald J. Trump.  Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, 1.2, 1-13.

McAdams, D. P.  (2017).  How stories found a home in human personality.  In I. Goodson (Ed.), Routledge international  handbook of narrative and life history (pp. 33-48).  London:  Routledge.

McAdams D. P., & Guo, J.  (2017).  The cultural shaping of life stories.  In A. T. Church (Ed.), The Praeger handbook of personality across cultures:  Vol. 2.  Culture and characteristic adaptations (pp. 185-210).  New York:  Praeger.

McAdams, D. P., & Jones, B. K.  (2017).  Making meaning in the wake of trauma:  Resilience and redemption.  In E. Altmaeir (Ed.), Meaning reconstruction after trauma (pp. 3-16).  London:  Elsevier.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.  (2017).  Supporting students’ college success:  The role of assessment of intrapersonal and interpersonal competencies.  (Study Committee:  Joan Herman (Chair), David Bills, Corbin Campbell, Tabbeye Chavous, Greg Duncan, Sulvia Hurtado, Patrick Kyllonen, Dan P. McAdams, Frederick Oswald, Jonathan Plucker, K. Ann Reninger, and Brian  Stecher).  Washington, DC:  National Academies Press.

Newton, N. J., Russell, S. A., & McAdams, D. P.  (2017).  Body appraisal, weight management goals, and well-being among midlife men and women.  Journal of Adult Development, 24, 31-39.

Westerhof, G. J. Bohlmeijer, E. T., & McAdams, D. P.  (2017).  The relation of ego identity and despair to personality traits and mental health.  Journal of Gerontology:  Psychological Sciences, 72, 400-407.

Breen, A. V., McLean, K. C., Cairney, K., & McAdams, D. P.  (2016).  Movies, books, and identity:  Exploring the narrative ecology of the self.  Qualitative Psychology, 3, 1-8.

Carroll, J., McAdams, D. P., & Wilson, E. O.  (Eds.).  (2016).  Darwin’s bridge:  Uniting the humanities and sciences.  New York:  Oxford University Press.

Dunlop, W., Guo, J., & McAdams, D. P.  (2016).  The autobiographical author through time:  Examining the degree of stability and change in redemptive and contaminated personal narratives.  Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7, 428-436.

Guo, J., Klevan, M., & McAdams, D. P.  (2016).  Personality traits, ego development, and the redemptive self.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42, 1551-1563.

Ko, H-J., Hooker, K., Geldhof, G. J., & McAdams, D. P.  (2016).  Longitudinal purpose in life trajectories:  Examining predictors in late midlife.  Psychology and Aging, 31, 693-698.

Manczak, E., Mangelsdorf, S., McAdams, D. P., Wong, M. S., Schoppe-Sullivan, S., & Brown, G.  (2016).  How did that make you feel?  Influences of gender and parental personality on family emotion talk.  Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 62, 388-414.

Manczak, E., Mangelsdorf, S., McAdams, D. P., Wong, M. S., Schoppe-Sullivan, S., & Brown, G.  (2016).  Autobiographical memories of childhood and sources of subjectivity in parents’ perceptions of infant temperament.  Infant Behavior and Development, 44, 77-85.

McAdams, D. P.  (June, 2016).  The mind of Donald Trump.  The Atlantic, pp. 76-90.

McAdams, D. P.  (2016).  From actor to agent to author:  Human evolution and the development of personality.  In J. Carroll, D. P. McAdams, and E. O. Wilson (Eds.), Darwin’s bridge:  Uniting the humanities and sciences (pp. 145-163).  New York:  Oxford University Press.

Newton, N. J., & Jones, B. K.  (2016).  Passing on:  Personal attributes associated with midlife expression of intended legacies.  Developmental Psychology, 52, 341-353.

Weston, S. J., Cox, K. S., Condon, D. M., & Jackson, J. J.  (2016).  A comparison of human narrative coding of redemption and automated linguistic analysis for understanding life stories.  Journal of Personality, 84, 594-606.

Adler, J. M., Brookshier, K., Monahan, C., Walder-Biesanz, I., Harmeling, L. H., Albaugh, M., McAdams,  D. P., & Oltmanns, T. F.  (2015).  Variation in narrative identity is associated with trajectories of mental health over several years.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 108, 476-496. 

Manczak, E., McLean, K. C., McAdams, D. P., & Chen, E.  (2015).  Physiological reactivity during parent-adolescent conversations about challenging events:  Associations with parental scaffolding and relationship quality.  Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 29, 522-531.

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

McAdams, D. P.  (2015).  Tracing three lines of personality development.  Research in Human Development, 12, 224-228.

McAdams, D. P.  (2015).  Three lines of personality development:  A conceptual itinerary.  European Psychologist, 20, 252-264.

McAdams, D. P.  (2015).  Leaders and their life stories:  Obama, Bush, and narratives of redemption.  In G. R. Goethals, S. T. Allison, R. M. Kramer, and D. M. Messick (Eds.), Contemporary conceptions of leadership (pp. 177-165).  New York:  Palgrave Macmillan.

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

McAdams, D. P., & Manczak, E.  (2015).  Personality and the life story.  In M. Mikulincer and P. R. Shaver (Eds.), APA handbook of personality and social psychology:  Vol. 4.  Personality processes and individual differences (pp. 425-446).  Washington, DC:  APA Books.

McAdams, D. P., &  Zapata-Gietl, C.  (2015).  Three strands of identity development across the human life course:  Reading Erik Erikson in full.  In K. C. McLean and M. Syed (Eds.), Oxford handbook of identity development (pp. 81-94).  New York:  Oxford University Press.

Rotella, K. N., Richeson, J. A., & McAdams, D. P.  (2015).  Groups’ search for meaning:  Redemption on the path to intergroup reconciliation.  Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 18, 696-715.

Walton, K., Pornpattananangkul, N., Curlee, A., McAdams, D. P., & Nusslock, R.  (2015).  Posterior versus frontal theta activity indexes approach motivation during affective autobiographical memories.  Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 15, 132-144.

Alisat, S., Norris, J. E., Pratt, M., Matsuba, K., & McAdams, D. P. (2014). Caring for the future of the earth: Generativity as a potential mediator for the prediction of environmental narratives from identity among Canadian activists and nonactivists. Identity, 14, 177-194.

Cox, K. S., & McAdams, D. P. (2014). Meaning making during high and low point story episodes predicts emotion regulation two years later: How the past informs the future.  Journal of Research in Personality, 50, 66-70.

Kandler, C., Zimmerman, J., & McAdams, D. P. (2014). Core and surface characteristics for the description and the theory of personality differences and development.  European Journal of Personality, 28, 231-243.

Manczak, E., Zapata-Gietl, C., & McAdams, D. P. (2014). Regulatory focus in the life story: Prevention and promotion as expressed in three layers of personality.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106, 169-181.

McAdams, D. P. (2014). The life narrative at midlife. In B. Schiff (Ed.), Re-reading “Personal Narrative and the Life Course”: A special issue of New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development (pp. 57-69). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

McAdams, D. P. (2014). Psychological science and the Nicomachean Ethics: Virtuous actors, agents, and authors. In N. Snow (Ed.), Cultivating virtue: Multiple perspectives (pp. 307-336). New York: Oxford University Press.

McAdams, D. P., & Guo, J. (2014). How shall I live? Constructing a life story in the college years. In C. Hanson (Ed.), In search of self: Exploring undergraduate identity (pp. 15-23). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Newton, N. J., & Baltys, I. H. (2014). Parental status and generativity within the context of race.  International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 78, 171-195.

Newton, N. J., Herr, J. M., Pollack, J. I., & McAdams, D. P. (2014). Selfless or selfish? Generativity and narcissism as components of legacy.  Journal of Adult Development, 21, 59-68.

Newton, N. J., Ryan, L. H., King, R. T., & Smith, J. (2014). Cohort differences in the marriage-health relationships for midlife women.  Social Science & Medicine, 116, 64-72.

Robinson, O., & McAdams, D. P.  (2014).  Four functional roles for case studies in emerging adulthood research.  Emerging Adulthood, 3, 1-8.

Adler, J.M., Harmeling, L.H., & Walder-Biesanz, I. (2013). Narrative meaning-making is associated with sudden gains in clients’ mental health under routine clinical conditions. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 81(5): 839-845. 
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Adler, J.M. (2013). Clients’ and therapists’ stories about psychotherapy. Journal of Personality, 81(6): 595-605. 
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Cox, K. S, Casablanca, M. A., & McAdams, D. P.  (2013).  “There is nothing good about this work”:  Identity and unhappiness among Nicaraguan female sex workers.  Journal of Happiness Studies, 14, 1459-1478.

Jones, B. K., & McAdams, D. P. (2013). Becoming generative: Socializing influences recalled in life stories in late midlife. Journal of Adult Development, 20, 158-172.

McAdams, D. P.  (2013).  The redemptive self:  Stories Americans live by (revised and expanded edition).  New York: Oxford University Press.

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

McAdams, D. P.  (2013).  Life authorship:  A psychological challenge for emerging adulthood, as illustrated in two case studies.  Emerging Adulthood, 1, 151-158.

McAdams, D. P.  (2013).  How actors, agents, and authors find meaning in life.  In K. Markman, T. Proulx, and M. J. Lindberg (Eds.), The psychology of meaning (pp. 171-190).  Washington, DC:  APA Books.

McAdams, D. P.  (2013).  The positive psychology of adult generativity:  Caring for the next generation and constructing a redemptive life.  In J. Sinnott (Ed.), Positive psychology:  Advances in understanding adult motivation (pp. 191-205).  New York:  Springer.

McAdams, D. P., Hanek, K. J., & Dadabo, J. G. (2013). Themes of self‐regulation and self‐exploration in the life stories of religious American conservatives and liberals. Political Psychology, 34, 201-219.

McAdams, D. P., & McLean, K. C.  (2013).  Narrative identity.  Current Directions in Psychological Science, 22, 233-238.

Newton, N. J., & Stewart, A. J. (2013). The road not taken: Women’s life paths and gender-linked personality traits.  Journal of Research in Personality, 49, 306-316. 

Sumner, J. A., Mineka, S., & McAdams, D. P.  (2013).  Reduced specificity in autobiographical memory narratives corresponds to performance on the Autobiographical Memory Test and predicts increases in depressive symptoms.  Memory, 21, 646-656.

Versey, H. S., & Newton, N. J. (2013). Generativity and productive pursuits: Pathways to successful aging in late-midlife African American and White Women. Journal of Adult Development.  

Adler, J.M. (2012). Living into the story: Agency and coherence in a longitudinal study of narrative identity development and mental health over the course of psychotherapy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102(2): 367-389. 
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Adler, J.M. (2012). Sitting at the nexus of epistemological traditions: Narrative psychological perspectives on self-knowledge.  In S. Vazire and  T. D. Wilson (Eds.), The handbook of self-knowledge (pp. 327-342). New York:  Guilford. 
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Adler, J.M., Chin, E.D., Kolisetty, A.P., Oltmanns, T.F. (2012). The distinguishing characteristics of narrative identity in adults with features of Borderline Personality Disorder: An empirical investigation. Journal of Personality Disorders, 26, 498-512. 
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Bauer, J. J., Schwab, J. R., & McAdams, D. P.  (2012).  Self-actualizing:  Where ego development finally feels good.  The Humanistic Psychologist, 39, 1-15.

Cox, K. S., & McAdams, D. P.  (2012).  The transforming self:  Service narratives and identity change in emerging adulthood.  Journal of Adolescence Research, 27, 18-43.

Matsuba, M. K., Pratt, M. W., Norris, J. F., Mohle, E., Alisat, S., & McAdams, D. P.  (2012).  Environmentalism as a context for expressing identity and generativity:  Patterns among activists and uninvolved youth and midlife adults.  Journal of Personality, 80, 1091-1116.

McAdams, D. P.  (2012).  Exploring psychological themes through life narrative accounts.  In J. A. Holstein and J. F. Gubrium (Eds.), Varieties of narrative analysis (pp. 15-32).  London:  Sage.

Adler, J.M. (2011). Epistemological tension in the future of personality disorder diagnosis. American Journal of Psychiatry, 168(11): 1221-1222. 
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Hanek, K. J., Olson, B. D., & McAdams, D. P. (2011). Political orientation and the psychology of Christian prayer: How liberals and conservatives pray. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 21: 30-42. 

Lilgendahl, J., & McAdams, D. P.  (2011).  Constructing stories of self-growth:  How individual differences in patterns of autobiographical reasoning relate to well-being in midlife.  Journal of Personality, 79, 391-428.

McAdams, D. P. (2011). George W. Bush and the redemptive dream: A psychological portrait. New York: Oxford University Press.  

McAdams, D. P. (2011). Life Narratives. In K. L. Fingerman, C. A. Berg, J. Smith, and T. C. Antonucci (Eds.), Handbook of lifespan development (pp. 589-610). New York: Springer. 

McAdams, D. P. (2011). Narrative identity.  in S. J. Schwartz, K. Luyckx, and V. L. Vignoles (Eds.), Handbook of identity theory and research (pp. 99-115). New York: Springer.

McAdams, D. P. (2011). Redemptive narratives in the life and the presidency of George W. Bush.  In C. Strozier, D. Offer, and O. Abdyli (Eds.), The leader: Psychological essays (2nd ed, pp. 135-152). New York: Springer.

McAdams, D. P., & Manczak, E. (2011). What is a “level” of personality?. Psychological Inquiry, 22: 40-44. 

Wilt, J., Olson, B., & McAdams, D. P.  (2011).  Higher-order factors of the Big Five predict exploration and threat in life stories.  Journal of Research in Personality, 45, 613-521.

Adler, J.M. (2010). Rising to the challenge of identifying and analyzing clients’ narratives. Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, 6(3), 189-202. 
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Bauer, J. J., & McAdams, D. P. (2010). Eudaimonic growth: Narrative growth goals predict increases in ego development and subjective well-being 3 years later. Developmental Psychology, 46: 761-772. 

Cox, K. S., Wilt, J., Olson, B., & McAdams, D. P. (2010). Generativity, the Big Five, and psychosocial adaptation in midlife adults. Journal of Personality, 78: 1185-1208. 

McAdams, D.P. & Adler, J.M. (2010). Autobiographical memory and the construction of a narrative identity: Theory, research, and clinical implication.  In J.E. Maddux and J. Tangney (Eds.), Social psychological foundations of clinical psychology (pp. 36-50). NewYork:  Guilford Press. 
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McAdams, D. P., & Cox, K. S. (2010). Self and identity across the life span.  In A. Freund and R. Lerner (Eds.), Handbook of lifespan development (Vol. 2, pp. 158-207). New York: Wiley. 

McAdams, D. P., & Olson, B. D. (2010). Personality development: Continuity and change. In S. Fiske, D. Schacter, and R. Sternberg (Eds.), Annual review of psychology (Vol. 61, pp. 517-542). Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews, Inc. 

McAdams, D. P., & Walden, K. (2010). Jack Block, the Big Five, and personality from the standpoint of the actor, agent, and author. Psychological Inquiry, 21: 50-56. 

Newton, N. J., & Stewart, A. J. (2010). The middle ages: Change in women’s personalities and social roles. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 34: 75-84. 

Stewart, A. J., & Newton, N. J. (2010). Gender, adult development, and aging.  In J. C. Chrisler and D. R. McCreary (Eds.), Handbook of gender research in psychology (pp. 559-580). New York:  Springer. 

Wilt, J., Cox, K. S., & McAdams, D. P. (2010). Exploring the relationships between Eriksonian developmental scripts and interpersonal adjustment. Journal of Adult Development, 17: 156-161. 

Adler, J.M. & Matthews, E.A. (2009). Encouraging epistemological exploration in the undergraduate psychology classroom: Impacts on retention and application of course material. Teaching of Psychology, 36(2): 122-125. 
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Adler, J.M. & Poulin, M.J. (2009). The political is personal: Narrating 9/11 and psychological well-being. Journal of Personality, 74(4): 903-932. 
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McAdams, D. P.  (2009).  The moral personality.  In D. Narvaez and D. K. Lapsley (Eds.), Personality, identity, and character:  Explorations in moral psychology (pp. 11-29).  New York:  Cambridge University Press.

McAdams, D. P. (2009). The person: An introduction to the science of personality psychology (5th Ed.). Wiley.

Adler, J.M. (2008). Two modes of thought: The narrative/paradigmatic disconnect in the Bailey book controversy. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 37(3): 422-425. 
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Adler, J.M., Skalina, L.M., & McAdams, D.P. (2008). The narrative reconstruction of psychotherapy and psychological health. Psychotherapy Research, 18(6), 719-734. 
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Bauer, J. J., McAdams, D. P., & Pals, J. L. (2008). Narrative identity and eudaimonic well-being.  Journal of Happiness Studies: 9, 81-104. 
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McAdams, D. P. (2008). American identity: The redemptive self. The General Psychologist: 43, 20-27. 
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McAdams, D. P. (2008). Generativity, the redemptive self, and the problem of a “noisy” ego in American life. In H. Wayment and J. J. Bauer (Eds.), Transcending self-interest: Psychological explorations of the quiet ego (pp. 235-241).  Washington, DC:  APA Books. 

McAdams, D. P. (2008). Personal narratives and the life story.  In O. John, R. Robins, and L. A. Pervin (Eds.), Handbook of personality: Theory and research (3^rd ed., pp. 241-261). New York:  Guilford Press. 
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McAdams, D. P., & Albaugh, M. (2008). What if there were no God? Politically conservative and liberal Christians imagine their lives without faith. Journal of Research in Personality: 1668-1672. 

McAdams, D. P. & Albaugh, M. (2008). The redemptive self, generativity, and American Christians at midlife: Life stories of evangelical and mainline Protestants.   In J. A. Belzen, and A. Geels (Eds.),  Autobiography and the psychological study of religious lives (pp. 255-286).  Amsterdam:  Rodopi.

McAdams, D. P., Albaugh, M., Farber, E., Daniels, J., Logan, R. L., & Olson, B. (2008). Family metaphors and moral intuitions: How conservatives and liberals narrate their lives. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 978-990. 

Zinbarg, R.E., Uliaszek, A.A., & Adler, J.M. (2008). The role of personality in psychotherapy for anxiety and depression.  Journal of Personality, 76(6): 1649-1688. 
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Adler, J.M. & McAdams, D.P. (2007). Telling stories about therapy: Ego development, well-being, and the therapeutic relationship.  In R. Josselson, D. P. McAdams, & A. Lieblich (Eds.), The Meaning of others: Narrative studies of relationships (pp. 213-236).  Washington, DC:  APA Books. 
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Adler, J.M. & McAdams, D.P. (2007). The narrative reconstruction of psychotherapy. Narrative Inquiry, 17(2): 179-202. 
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Adler, J.M. & McAdams, D.P. (2007). Time, culture, and stories of the self. Psychological Inquiry, 18(2): 97-99. 
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Adler, J.M., Wagner, J.W., & McAdams, D.P. (2007). Personality and the coherence of psychotherapy narratives. Journal of Research in Personality, 41(6): 1179-1198. 
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Josselson, R., Lieblich, A., & McAdams, D. P. (Eds.) (2007). The meaning of others: Narrative studies of relationships. Washington, DC: APA Books.

McAdams, D. P., & Pals, J. L. (2007). The role of theory in personality research.  In R. Robins, C. Fraley, and R. Krueger (Eds.), Handbook of research methods in personality psychology (pp. 3-20). New York: Guilford Press. 

Adler, J.M., Kissel, E., McAdams, D.P. (2006). Emerging from the CAVE: Attributional style and the narrative study of identity in midlife adults. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 30(1): 39-51. 
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McAdams, D. P. (2006). The redemptive self: Stories Americans live by. Oxford University Press.

McAdams, D. P. (2006). The redemptive self: Generativity and the stories Americans live by. Research in Human Development, 3, 81-100. 
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McAdams, D. P. (2006). The problem of narrative coherence. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 19, 109-125. 
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McAdams, D. P. (2006). The role of narrative in personality psychology today. Narrative Inquiry, 16, 11-18. 
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McAdams, D. P (2006). An American life story.  In M. R. Schwehn and D. C. Bass (Eds.), Leading lives that matter: What we should do and who we should be (pp. 471-480). Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. 

McAdams, D.P. & Adler, J.M. (2006). How does personality develop?  In D. Mroczek & T. Little (Eds.), Handbook of Personality Development (pp. 469-492). Mahwah, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum. 
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McAdams, D. P., Bauer, J. J., Sakaeda, A., Anyidoho, N. A., Machado, M., Magrino, K., White, K. W., & Pals, J. L (2006). Continuity and change in the life story: A longitudinal study of autobiographical memories in emerging adulthood. Journal of Personality, 74, 1371-1400. 
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McAdams, D. P., Josselson, R., & Lieblich, A. (Eds.). (2006). Identity and story: Creating self in narrative.  Washington, DC: APA Books.

McAdams, D. P., & Logan, R. L. (2006). Creative work, love, and the dialectic in life narratives of selected academics.  In D. P. McAdams, R. Josselson, and A. Lieblich (Eds.), Identity and story: Creating self in narrative (pp. 89-108). Washington, DC:  APA Books.

McAdams, D. P., & Pals, J. L. (2006). A new Big Five: Fundamental principles for an integrative science of personality. American Psychologist: 204-217. 
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McGregor, I., McAdams, D. P., & Little, B. R.  (2006).  Personal projects, life stories, and happiness:  On being true to one’s traits.  Journal of  Research in Personality, 40, 551-572. 

Roy, K. M., & McAdams, D. P.  (2006).  Second chances as transformative stories in human development:  An introduction.  Research in Human Development, 3, 77-80. 

Bauer, J. J., McAdams, D. P., & Sakaeda, A. R (2005). The crystallization of desire and crystallization of discontent in narratives of life-changing decisions. Journal of Personality, 73, 1181-1213. 
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Bauer, J. J., McAdams, D. P., & Sakaeda, A. (2005). Interpreting the good life: Growth memories in the lives of mature, happy people.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 203-217. 
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Gluck, J., Bluck, S., Baron, J., & McAdams, D. P.  (2005).  The wisdom of experience:  Autobiographical narratives across adulthood.  International Journal of Behavioral Development, 29, 197-208.

McAdams, D. P.  (2005).  Sexual lives:  The development of traits, adaptations, and life stories.  Human Development, 48, 299-302.

McAdams, D. P.  (2005).  Studying lives in time:  A narrative approach.  In R. Levy, P. Ghisletta, J. M. Legoff, D. Spini, and E. Widmer (Eds.), Toward an interdisciplinary perspective on the life course:  Advances in life course research (Vol. 10, pp. 237-258).  London:  Elsevier.

McAdams, D. P (2005). A psychologist without a country, or living two lives in the same story.  In G. Yancy and S. Hadley (Eds.), Narrative identities: Psychologists engaged in self-construction (pp. 114-130)). London: Jessica Kingsley. 
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McAdams, D. P (2005). What psychobiographers might learn from personality psychology.  In W. T. Schultz (Ed.), Handbook of psychobiography (pp. 64-83). New York: Oxford University Press. 
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Bauer, J. J., & McAdams, D. P.  (2004).  Growth goals, maturity, and well-being.  Developmental Psychology, 40, 114-127.

Bauer, J. J., & McAdams, D. P.  (2004).  Personal growth in adults’ stories of voluntary life transitions.  Journal of Personality, 72, 573-602.

De St. Aubin, E., McAdams, D. P., & Kim, T. C.  (Eds.).  (2004).  The generative society.  Washington, DC:  APA  Books.

Lieblich, A., McAdams, D. P., & Josselson, R.  (Eds.).  (2004).  Healing plots:  The narrative bases of psychotherapy.  Washington, DC:  APA Books.

McAdams, D. P.  (2004).  The redemptive self:  Narrative identity in America today.  In D. Beike, J. M. Lampien, and D. A. Behrend (Eds.), The self and memory (pp. 95-115).  New York:  Psychology Press.

McAdams, D. P.  (2004).  Generativity and the narrative ecology of family life.  In M. W. Pratt and B. H. Friese (Eds.), Family stories and the life course:  Across time and generations (pp. 235-257).  Mahwah, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum.

McAdams, D. P., Anyidoho, N. A., Brown, C., Huang, Y. T., Kaplan, B., & Machado, M. A.  (2004).  Traits and stories:  Links between dispositional and narrative features of personality.  Journal of Personality, 72, 761-784.

McAdams, D. P., & Bauer, J. J.  (2004).  Gratitude in modern life:  Its manifestations and development.  In R. H. Emmons and M. McCullough (Eds.), The psychology of gratitude (pp. 81-99).  New York:  Oxford University Press.

McAdams, D. P., & Janis, L.  (2004).  Narrative identity and narrative therapy.  In L. E. Angus and J. McLeod (Eds.), Handbook of narrative and psychotherapy (pp. 159-173).  London:  Sage.

McAdams, D. P., & Logan, R. L.  (2004).  What is generativity?  In E. de St. Aubin, D. P. McAdams, and T. C. Kim (Eds.), The generative society (pp. 15-31).  Washington, DC:  APA Books.

Pals, J. L., & McAdams, D. P.  (2004).  The transformed self:  A narrative understanding of posttraumatic growth.  Psychological Inquiry, 15, 65-69.