McAdams, Dan P.

The Psychology of Life Stories

McAdams, D. P. (2001) · Review of General Psychology

Identity, Memory, and TherapySocial Representations and Identity

Cited by 2,808

A new Big Five: Fundamental principles for an integrative science of personality.

McAdams, D. P., & Pals, J. L. (2006) · American Psychologist

Personality Traits and PsychologyCultural Differences and Values

Cited by 1,992

Narrative identity

McAdams, D. P., & McLean, K. C. (2013) · Current Directions in Psychological Science

Identity, Memory, and TherapyPsychological and Temporal Perspectives Research

Cited by 1,497

A theory of generativity and its assessment through self-report, behavioral acts, and narrative themes in autobiography.

McAdams, D. P., & de St. Aubin, E. (1992) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Identity, Memory, and TherapyAging and Gerontology Research

Cited by 1,339

Personality Development: Continuity and Change Over the Life Course

McAdams, D. P., & Olson, B. D. (2010) · Annual Review of Psychology

Personality Traits and PsychologyIdentity, Memory, and Therapy

Cited by 931

When Bad Things Turn Good and Good Things Turn Bad: Sequences of Redemption and Contamination in Life Narrative and their Relation to Psychosocial Adaptation in Midlife Adults and in Students

McAdams, D. P., Reynolds, J., Lewis, M., Patten, A. H., & Bowman, P. J. (2001) · Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Identity, Memory, and TherapyPsychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

Cited by 822

The Redemptive Self

McAdams, D. P. (2006) · Oxford University Press eBooks

Identity, Memory, and TherapyReligion, Spirituality, and Psychology

Cited by 627

Generativity among young, midlife, and older adults

McAdams, D. P., de St. Aubin, E., & Logan, R. L. (1993) · Psychology and Aging

Aging and Gerontology ResearchCreativity in Education and Neuroscience

Cited by 614

Stories of commitment: The psychosocial construction of generative lives.

McAdams, D. P., Diamond, A., de St. Aubin, E., & Mansfield, E. (1997) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Identity, Memory, and TherapyAging and Gerontology Research

Cited by 470

Research Methods for Studying Narrative Identity: A Primer

Adler, J. M., Dunlop, W. L., Fivush, R., Lilgendahl, J. P., Lodi-Smith, J., McAdams, D. P., McLean, K. C., Pasupathi, M., & Syed, M. (2017) · Social Psychological and Personality Science

Identity, Memory, and TherapyQualitative research in health

Cited by 359

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., et al. (2020) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Identity, Memory, and TherapyPsychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

Cited by 358

Traits and Stories: Links Between Dispositional and Narrative Features of Personality

McAdams, D. P., Anyidoho, N. A., Brown, C., Huang, Y. T., Kaplan, B., & Machado, M. A. (2004) · Journal of Personality

Identity, Memory, and TherapyPersonality Traits and Psychology

Cited by 355

The Problem of Narrative Coherence

Mcadams, D. P. (2006) · Journal of Constructivist Psychology

Identity, Memory, and TherapyQualitative research in health

Cited by 346

Narrative Identity

McAdams, D. P. (2011) · Handbook of Identity Theory and Research

Identity, Memory, and TherapyQualitative research in health

Cited by 346

Narrative Identity: What Is It? What Does It Do? How Do You Measure It?

McAdams, D. P. (2018) · Imagination, Cognition and Personality

Identity, Memory, and TherapySocial Representations and Identity

Cited by 236

Narrating the Generative Life

McAdams, D. P., & Guo, J. (2015) · Psychological Science

Identity, Memory, and TherapyAging and Gerontology Research

Cited by 230

“First we invented stories, then they changed us”: The Evolution of Narrative Identity

McAdams, D. P. (2019) · Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture

Identity, Memory, and TherapySocial Representations and Identity

Cited by 178

Exploring Psychological Themes Through Life-Narrative Accounts

McAdams, D. (2012) · Varieties of Narrative Analysis

Identity, Memory, and TherapyQualitative research in health

Cited by 137

Generativity, the Big Five, and Psychosocial Adaptation in Midlife Adults

Cox, K. S., Wilt, J., Olson, B., & McAdams, D. P. (2010) · Journal of Personality

Personality Traits and PsychologyAging and Gerontology Research

Cited by 99

Generativity and Themes of Agency and Communion in Adult Autobiography

Mansfield, E. D., & McAdams, D. P. (1996) · Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Identity, Memory, and TherapyAging and Gerontology Research

Cited by 92

Seeing your life story as a Hero’s Journey increases meaning in life.

Rogers, B. A., Chicas, H., Kelly, J. M., Kubin, E., Christian, M. S., Kachanoff, F. J., Berger, J., Puryear, C., McAdams, D. P., & Gray, K. (2023) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Identity, Memory, and TherapyPsychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

Cited by 84

Narrative identity in the psychosis spectrum: A systematic review and developmental model

Cowan, H. R., Mittal, V. A., & McAdams, D. P. (2021) · Clinical Psychology Review

Identity, Memory, and TherapySchizophrenia research and treatment

Cited by 82

The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump: A Psychological Reckoning

McAdams, D. P. (2020)

History, Medicine, and LeadershipPersonality Traits and Psychology

Cited by 59

Self and identity in personality psychology

McAdams, D. P., Trzesniewski, K., Lilgendahl, J., Benet-Martinez, V., & Robins, R. W. (2021) · Personality Science

Identity, Memory, and TherapyPersonality Traits and Psychology

Cited by 50