Papers

In Press
Adler, J.M., Chin, E.D., Kolisetty, A.P., Oltmanns, T.F. (In Press/Under Review). The distinguishing characteristics of narrative identity in adults with features of Borderline Personality Disorder: An empirical investigation.. Journal of Personality Disorders.

Adler, J.M. (In Press/Under Review). Living into the story: Agency and coherence in a longitudinal study of narrative identity development and mental health over the course of psychotherapy.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Adler, J.M. (In Press/Under Review). Sitting at the nexus of epistemological traditions: Narrative psychological perspectives on self-knowledge in S. Vazire & T.D. Wilson (Eds.), The handbook of self-knowledge. Guilford.

McAdams, D. P., Hanek K. J., & Dadabo, J. G. (In Press/Under Review). Themes of self-regulation and self-exploration in the life stories of religious American conservatives and liberals. Political Psychology.

2011
Adler, J.M. & Cook-Nobles, R. (2011). The successful treatment of specific phobia in a college counseling center. Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 25(1): 56-66.
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Hanek, K. J., Olson, B. D., & McAdams, D. P. (2011). Political orientation and the psychology of Christian prayer: how liberals and conservatives pray. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 21: 30-42.

McAdams, D. P., & Manczak, E. (2011). What is a “level” of personality?. Psychological Inquiry, 22: 40-44.

McAdams, D. P. (2011). George W. Bush and the redemptive dream: A psychological portrait. New York: Oxford University Press.

McAdams, D. P. (2011). I want to be a social psychologist in R. Arkin (Ed.), Most underappreciated: 50 prominent social psychologists describe their most unloved work (pp. 46-50). New York: Oxford University Press.

McAdams, D. P. (2011). Life Narratives. in K. L. Fingerman, C. A. Berg, J. Smith, and T. C. Antonucci (Eds.), Handbook of lifespan development (pp. 589-610). New York: Springer.

McAdams, D. P. (2011). Narrative Identity in S. J. Schwartz, K. Luyckx, and V. L. Vignoles (Eds.), Handbook of identity theory and research (pp. 99-115). New York: Springer. DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-7988_5.

McAdams, D. P. (2011). Redemptive narratives in the life and the presidency of George W. Bush in C. Strozier, D. Offer, and O. Abdyli (Eds.), The leader: Psychological essays (2nd Ed.) (pp. 135-152). New York: Springer.

2010
Adler, J.M. (2010). Rising to the challenge of identifying and analyzing clients’ narratives.. Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, 6(3): 189-202.
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Adler, J.M. (2010). The most important fiction in in The World Book of Happiness, L. Bormans (Ed.) (in press) Lanoo Publishers.
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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.

Cox, K. S., Wilt, J., Olson, B., & McAdams, D. P. (2010). Generativity, the Big Five, and psychosocial adaptation in midlife adults. Journal of Personality, 78: 1185-1208.

McAdams, D. P., & Cox, K. S. (2010). Self and identity across the life span in A. Freund and R. Lerner (Eds.), Handbook of lifespan development: Vol. 2 (pp. 158-207). New York: Wiley.

McAdams, D. P., & Olson, B. D. (2010). Personality development: Continuity and change. in S. Fiske, D. Schacter, and R. Sternberg (Eds.), Annual review of psychology, Vol. 61 (pp. 517-542). Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews, Inc.

McAdams, D. P., & Walden, K. (2010). Jack Block, the Big Five, and personality from the standpoint of the actor, agent, and author. Psychological Inquiry, 21: 50-56.

McAdams, D.P. & Adler, J.M. (2010). Autobiographical memory and the construction of a narrative identity: Theory, research, and clinical implications in J.E. Maddux & J. Tangney, Social psychological foundations of clinical psychology. (pp. 36-50). Guilford Press.
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Wilt, J., Cox, K. S., & McAdams, D. P. (2010). Exploring the relationships between Eriksonian developmental scripts and interpersonal adjustment. Journal of Adult Development, 17: 156-161.

2009
Adler, J.M. & Matthews, E.A. (2009). Encouraging epistemological exploration in the undergraduate psychology classroom: Impacts on retention and application of course material. Teaching of Psychology, 36(2): 122-125.
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Adler, J.M. & Poulin, M.J. (2009). The political is personal: Narrating 9/11 and psychological well-being. Journal of Personality, 74(4): 903-932.
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McAdams, D. P. (2009). The person: An introduction to the science of personality psychology (5th Ed.). Wiley.

2008
Adler, J.M., Skalina, L.M., & McAdams, D.P. (2008). The narrative reconstruction of psychotherapy and psychological health. Psychotherapy Research, 18(6): 719-734.
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Adler, J.M. (2008). Two modes of thought: The narrative/paradigmatic disconnect in the Bailey book controversy. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 37(3): 422-425 (for personal use only).
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Bauer, J. J., McAdams, D. P., & Pals, J. L. (2008). Narrative identity and eudaimonic well-being.. Journal of Happiness Studies: 9, 81-104.
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McAdams, D. P. & Albaugh, M. (2008). The Redemptive Self, Generativity, and American Christians at Midlife: Life Stories of Evangelical and Mainline Protestants in Belzen, J. A. & Geels, A., Autobiography and the psychological study of religious lives Rodopi.

McAdams, D. P., & Albaugh, M. (2008). What if there were no God? Politically conservative and liberal Christians imagine their lives without faith. Journal of Research in Personality: 1668-1672.

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: 978-990.

McAdams, D. P. (2008). American identity: The redemptive self. The General Psychologist: 43, 20-27.
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McAdams, D. P. (2008). Foreword in H. A. Murray, Explorations in personality: 70th anniversary edition (pp. vii-xxxvi). Oxford University Press.
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McAdams, D. P. (2008). Generativity, the redemptive self, and the problem of a “noisy” ego in American life. in Wayment, H. and Bauer, J. J. (Eds.), Transcending self-interest: Psychological explorations of the quiet ego (pp. 235-241). American Psychological Association Press. .

McAdams, D. P. (2008). Personal narratives and the life story in John, O., Robins, R., & Pervin, L. A., Handbook of personality: Theory and research (pp. 241-261). Guilford Press.
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Zinbarg, R.E., Uliaszek, A.A., & Adler, J.M. (2008). The role of personality in psychotherapy for anxiety and depression. Journal of Personality, 76(6): 1649-1688.
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2007
Adler, J.M. & McAdams, D.P. (2007). Telling stories about therapy: Ego development, well-being, and the therapeutic relationship in Josselson, R., McAdams, D.P., & Lieblich, A. (Eds.). , The Meaning of Others: Narrative Studies of Relationships (pp. 213-236). American Psychological Association.
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Adler, J.M. & McAdams, D.P. (2007). The narrative reconstruction of psychotherapy. Narrative Inquiry, 17(2): 179-202.
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Adler, J.M. & McAdams, D.P. (2007). Time, culture, and stories of the self. Psychological Inquiry, 18(2): 97-99.
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Adler, J.M., Wagner, J.W., & McAdams, D.P. (2007). Personality and the coherence of psychotherapy narratives. Journal of Research in Personality, 41(6): 1179-1198.
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Josselson, R., Lieblich, A., & McAdams, D. P. (Eds.) (2007). The meaning of others: Narrative studies of relationships. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press.

McAdams, D. P. (2007). On grandiosity in personality psychology. American Psychologist, 62: 60-61.

McAdams, D. P., & Pals, J. L. (2007). The role of theory in personality research in R. Robins, C. Fraley, and R. Krueger (Eds.), Handbook of research methods in personality psychology (pp. 3-20). New York: Guilford Press.

McAdams, D. P. (2007). Autobiographical narratives in R. F. Baumeister and K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of social psychology (pp. Vol. 1, pp. 83-85). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

2006
Adler, J.M., Kissel, E., McAdams, D.P. (2006). Emerging from the CAVE: Attributional style and the narrative study of identity in midlife adults. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 30(1): 39-51.
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McAdams, D. P. (2006). The redemptive self: Generativity and the stories Americans live by. Research in Human Development: 81-100.
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McAdams, D. P. (2006). The problem of narrative coherence. Journal of Constructivist Psychology: 109-125.
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McAdams, D. P. (2006). The role of narrative in personality psychology today. Narrative Inquiry: 11-18.
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McAdams, D. P., & Logan, R. L. (2006). Creative work, love, and the dialectic in life narratives of selected academics in McAdams, D.P., R. Josselson, and A. Lieblich (Eds.), Identity and story: Creating self in narrative (pp. 89-108). APA Books.

McAdams, D. P., & Pals, J. L. (2006). A new Big Five: Fundamental principles for an integrative science of personality. American Psychologist: 204-217.
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McAdams, D. P., Bauer, J. J., Sakaeda, A., Anyidoho, N. A., Machado, M., Magrino, K., White, K. W., & Pals, J. L (2006). Continuity and change in the life story: A longitudinal study of autobiographical memories in emerging adulthood. . Journal of Personality: 1371-1400.
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McAdams, D. P., Josselson, R., & Lieblich, A. (2006). Identity and story: Creating self in narrative. APA Books.

McAdams, D. P. (2006). The redemptive self: Stories Americans live by. Oxford University Press.

McAdams, D. P (2006). An American life story. in M. R. Schwehn and D. C. Bass (Eds.), Leading lives that matter: What we should do and who we should be  (pp. 471-480). Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing.

McAdams, D.P. & Adler, J.M. (2006). How does personality develop? in D. Mroczek & T. Little (Eds.), Handbook of Personality Development (pp. 469-492). Lawrence Erlbaum.
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2005
Bauer, J. J., McAdams, D. P., & Sakaeda, A. R (2005). The crystallization of desire and crystallization of discontent in narratives of life-changing decisions. Journal of Personality: 73, 1181-1213.
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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..
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McAdams, D. P (2005). A psychologist without a country, or living two lives in the same story in G. Yancy and S. Hadley (Eds.), Narrative identities: Psychologists engaged in self-construction (pp. (pp. 114-130)). London: Jessica Kingsley.
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McAdams, D. P (2005). What psychobiographers might learn from personality psychology in W. T. Schultz (Ed.), Handbook of psychobiography (pp. (pp. 64-83)). New York: Oxford University Press.
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