
#32 Narrative identity with Jonathan Adler, Kate McLean, and Monisha Pasupathi
Personality Psychology Podcast
The Future of Cure and Narrative Identity Research
I'm excited about an idea that I've been working on with my colleague Nick Westrate which is that we often I think are in our field we have thought about storytelling. We need to know the stories of the group that we belong to like what's our history and that's often passed down in families so intergenerational storytelling family storytelling is really important for kids to locate themselves in a web of connection. So that idea of story access is something that I'm really excited about and thinking about how can we create more story access when there isn't enough. The scholarship of narrative identity is also incredibly relevant to understanding personality pathology. There's some really exciting work happening there that has the potential to