Dan P McAdams

Professor, School of Education and Social Policy
Henry Wade Rogers Professor, Psychology
Professor, Psychology
Human Development and Social Policy PhD Program
Learning Sciences PhD Program
Psychology PhD Program

Phone+1 847 491 4174
Emaildmca@northwestern.edu

Source: Scopus

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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.

Education/Academic qualification

Psychology and Social Relations, PhD, Harvard University

… → 1979

Psychology and Humanities, BS, Valparaiso University

… → 1976

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5 Finished

Foley Center for the Study of Lives: Renewal and New Directions
McAdams, D. P. & Logan, R. L.
Foley Family Foundation (WI)
9/1/07 → 8/31/21
Project: Research project
Cortical midline structures and self-reflection in youth at ultra-high risk for psychosis
McAdams, D. P.
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
9/1/17 → 3/31/21
Project: Research project
Learning to Tell a Better Story
McAdams, D. P. & Destin, M. P.
Character Lab
7/1/15 → 11/30/18
Project: Research project
The Good Story: Generativity and the Construction of Virtue across Generations
McAdams, D. P.
University of Chicago, John Templeton Foundation
3/1/10 → 2/29/12
Project: Research project
Foley Award Supplement
McAdams, D. P.
Foley Family Foundation (WI)
3/15/02 → 8/31/07
Project: Research project

Self-transcendence and life stories of humanistic growth among late-midlife adults
Reischer, H. N., Roth, L. J., Villarreal, J. A. & McAdams, D. P., Apr 2021, In: Journal of Personality. 89, 2, p. 305-324 20 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
1 Scopus citations
I understand the meaning of life—but what is the meaning of “meaning”?
McAdams, D. P., Mar 1 2020, In: Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture. 4, 1, p. 39-41 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
Personality and coping in life challenge narratives
Greene, R. E., Cowan, H. R. & McAdams, D. P., Jun 2020, In: Journal of Research in Personality. 86, 103960.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The empirical structure of narrative identity: The initial big three
McLean, K. C., Syed, M., Pasupathi, M., Adler, J. M., Dunlop, W. L., Drustrup, D., Fivush, R., Graci, M. E., Lilgendahl, J. P., Lodi-Smith, J., McAdams, D. P. & McCoy, T. P., Oct 2020, In: Journal of personality and social psychology. 119, 4, p. 920-944 25 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
25 Scopus citations
The stories couples live by
Dunlop, W. L., Bühler, J., Maghsoodi, A., Harake, N., Wilkinson, D. & McAdams, D. P., 2020, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
1 Scopus citations