Psychology Faculty Profiles
Dan P. McAdams, Ph.D.
Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Clinical Psychology, Personality Psychology
Office: Swift 305
Phone: (847) 467-2292
E-mail: dmca@northwestern.edu
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. (2006). The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By. New York: Oxford University Press.
McAdams, D. P. (2006). The Person: A New Introduction to Personality Psychology, (4th Ed.). New York: Wiley.
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.
