Dan P McAdams

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

Phone847/491-4174
Emaildmca@northwestern.edu

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Education/Academic qualification

Psychology and Social Relations, PhD, Harvard University

… → 1979

Psychology and Humanities, BS, Valparaiso University

… → 1976

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Grants 1997 2020

2 Active
4 Finished

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 → 8/31/20

Project: Research project

Psychotic Disorders

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Cognition

Interviews

Brain

Foley Center for the Study of Lives: Renewal and New Directions

McAdams, D. P. & Logan, R. L.

Foley Family Foundation (WI)

9/1/07 → 8/31/20

Project: Research project

Learning to Tell a Better Story

Destin, M. P. & McAdams, D. P.

Character Lab

7/1/15 → 11/30/18

Project: Research project

narrative

learning

student

school

resilience

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

Research Output 1980 2019

Authenticity and inauthenticity in narrative identity

Wilt, J. A., Thomas, S. & McAdams, D. P., Jul 1 2019, In : Heliyon. 5, 7, e02178.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

authenticity

narrative

Machiavellianism

experience

conformity

Continuity and growth in the life story-or is it stagnation and flux?

McAdams, D. P., Jun 1 2019, In : Qualitative Psychology. 6, 2, p. 206-214 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate

Growth

Research

Personality

Psychology

Power (Psychology)

Handbook of Personality Development

McAdams, D. P., Shiner, R. L. & Tackett, J., 2019, Guilford Press. 623 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Book

Mean Level Differences in the Vividness, Meaning, and Coherence of Life Story High and Low Points: How Valenced Life Stories Do and Do Not Differ

Cox, K. S. & McAdams, D. P., Apr 3 2019, In : Identity. 19, 2, p. 128-143 16 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

young adult

trend

linguistics

narrative

coherence

1 Citation (Scopus)

Psychopathology and the self: Human actors, agents, and authors

McAdams, D. P., Jan 1 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Journal of Personality.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Psychopathology

Ego

Self Concept

Psychological Stress

Personality