Psychology Faculty Profiles
Dan P. McAdams, Ph.D.
Professor
Department Chair
Clinical Psychology, Personality Psychology
Office: Annenberg 209
Phone: (847) 491-4174
E-mail: dmca@northwestern.edu
Links
School of Education and Social Policy/Foley Center
The Foley Center for the Study of Lives
Curriculum Vitae
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. (2011). George W. Bush and the redemptive dream: A psychological portrait. New York: Oxford University Press.
McAdams, D. P., & Olson, B. (2010). Personality development: Continuity and change over the life course. In S. Fiske, D. Schacter, and R. Sternberg (Eds.), Annual Review of Psychology (Vol. 61, pp. 517-542). Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews, Inc.
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.
McAdams, D. P. (2009). The person: An introduction to the science of personality psychology (5th Ed.). New York: Wiley.
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.
McAdams, D. P., & Pals, J. L. (2006). A new Big Five: Fundamental principles for an integrative science of personality. American Psychologist, 61, 204-217.
McAdams, D. P. (2006). The redemptive self: Stories Americans live by. New York: Oxford University Press.
