Dan McAdams
Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University.
Dan P. McAdams is the Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology and professor of human development and social policy at Northwestern University. McAdams is currently working on a book titled, The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump: A Psychological Reckoning (Oxford University Press), which derives from his June 2016 cover article in The Atlantic magazine, “The Mind of Donald Trump.”
McAdams is most well-known for formulating a life-story theory of human identity, which argues that modern adults provide their lives with a sense of unity and purpose by constructing and internalizing self-defining life stories or “personal myths.” A leader in the recent emergence within the social sciences of narrative approaches to studying human lives – approaches that place stories and storytelling at the center of human personality – McAdams has been funded by major grants from The Spencer Foundation and the Templeton Foundation. He directed the Foley Center for the Study of Lives at Northwestern University from 1997 to 2019, a project funded by the Foley Family Foundation.
Visit website: https://psychology.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core/profiles/dan-mcadams.html
See also: 
Northwestern University
- Private multidisciplinary research university
Details last updated 24-Sep-2020
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Should We Die?
The Atlantic - 18-Feb-2017
Zoltan Istvan wants to be the one to decide when his life ends. Goal is one shared by many futur...
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