Dan P. McAdams explained

Dan P. McAdams
Birth Date:7 February 1954
Birth Place:Lynwood, California, U.S.[1]
Work Institution:Northwestern University (professor)
Fields:Narrative psychology and Thematic coherence

Dan P. McAdams (born February 7, 1954) is an American psychologist and the Henry Wade Rogers Professor in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University.[2] [3]

Biography

He was raised in Gary, Indiana, where he attended nearby Valparaiso University. In 1979 he was awarded a Ph.D. from the Harvard Department of Social Relations.[4]

McAdams is the author of The Person: An Introduction to the Science of Personality Psychology, a classroom textbook. He co-edited, with Amia Lieblich and Ruthellen Josselson, the eleven-book series "The Narrative Study of Lives".[5] He is a member of The Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group at the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics.[6]

Three Levels of Personality

McAdams' three level model of personality[7] was used in Jonathan Haidt's The Happiness Hypothesis[8] The three levels are :

  1. Dispositional traits, a person's general tendencies. For example, the Big Five personality traits lists: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism.
  2. Characteristic adaptations, a person's desires, beliefs, concerns, and coping mechanisms.
  3. Life stories, the stories that give a life a sense of unity, meaning, and purpose. This is known as narrative identity.

Publication

Bibliography

Selected publications:

Articles and essays

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Narrative psychology: Internet and resource guide. Le Moyne College . January 22, 2013.
  2. Web site: Faculty Profiles. Department of Psychology, Northwestern University . January 22, 2013.
  3. Web site: About Dan McAdams :: The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By :: Northwestern University . 2022-06-06 . redemptiveself.northwestern.edu.
  4. Web site: faculty profiles . UNDERGRAD PSYCH ASSOC . January 26, 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130102110821/http://groups.northwestern.edu/upa/faculty.html . January 2, 2013 .
  5. Web site: Foley Center. Foley Center, Northwestern University . January 22, 2013.
  6. Web site: The Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group. Becker Friedman Institute . January 22, 2013.
  7. Web site: What Do We Know When We Know a Person? . Journal of Personality, 1995 . January 22, 2013.
  8. Book: Haidt, Jonathan . The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom . 2006 . 978-0465028023 . 142.