In Press
Dunlop, W. L. (in press). The cycle of life and story: Redemptive autobiographical narratives and prosociality. Current Opinion in Psychology.
Dunlop, W. L. (in press). Narrative identity’s nomological network: Expanding and organizing assessment of the storied self. Personality Science.
Lind, M., Sharp, C., & Dunlop, W. L. (in press). Why, how, and when to integrate narrative identity within dimensional approaches to personality disorders. Journal of Personality Disorders.
Dunlop, W. L., Bühler, J. L., Maghsoodi, A., Harake, N., Wilkinson, D., & McAdams, D. P. (in press). The story couples live by. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.
Dunlop, W. L., Wilkinson, D. E., & Harake, N. (in press). Episodic master narratives through time: Exploring the temporal dynamism of 2016 election night stories. European Journal of Social Psychology.
Wilkinson, D., & Dunlop, W. L. (in press). Ethnic-racial life scripts: Relations with ethnic-racial identity and psychological health. Emerging Adulthood.
2021
Dunlop, W. L. (2021). Everything you wanted to know about redemptive stories* (*but were afraid to ask). Journal of Research in Personality, 92.
Dunlop, W. L., Harake, N., & Wilkinson, D. (2021). Romantic heartbreak: Prevalence, personality traits, and personal stories. Personal Relationships, 28, 148-168.
Wilkinson, D. E., & Dunlop, W. L. (2021). Both sides of the story: Narratives of romantic infidelity. Personal Relationships, 28, 121-147.
2020
Dunlop, W. L., Lee, D., McCoy, T. P., Harake, N., Wilkinson, D., Graham, L. E., & Miller, T. J. (2020). The stories we tell, the reputations we form: Narrative identity and person perception. Journal of Research on Personality, 89.
Harake, N. R., McCoy, T. P., Lee, D., & Dunlop, W. L. (2020). Narrating the other: Self-other agreement of affective qualities and manifest events among personal life stories and the vicarious life stories provided by informants. Journal of Research in Personality, 89.
Dunlop, W. L., Wilkinson, D., Harake, N., Graham, L. E., & Lee, D. (2020). The redemption and contamination research form: Exploring relations with narrative identity, personality traits, and life satisfaction. Memory, 28, 1219-1230.
Baranski, E., Gray, J., Morse, P., & Dunlop, W. L. (2020). From desire to development? A multi-sample, idiographic-nomothetic examination of volitional personality change. Journal of Research in Personality, 11, 254-265.
McLean, K. C., Delker, B. C., Dunlop, W. L., Salton, R., & Syed, M. (2020). Redemptive stories and those who tell them are preferred in the U.S. Collabra: Psychology, 6.
Harake, N., & Dunlop, W. L. (2020). Storying the heartbreak: The transformational processing of romantic breakups. Narrative Inquiry, 30, 18-40.
Dunlop, W. L., Harake, N., Wilkinson, D., & Graham, L. (2020). On rhetoric and ratings: Assessing narrative identity via conceptual coding and self-ratings. Journal of Research in Personality, 85.
Dunlop, W. L., Karan, A., Harake, N., & Wilkinson, D. (2020). Love in the first degree: Individual differences in first-person pronoun use and adult romantic attachment styles. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 11, 254-265.
McLean, K. C., Syed, M., Pasupathi, M., Adler, J., Dunlop, W., Drustrup, D., Fivush, R., Graci, M., Lilgendahl, J. L., Lodi-Smith, J., McAdams, D. P., & McCoy, T. (2020). The empirical structure of narrative identity: The initial Big Three. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119, 920-944.
2019
Dunlop, W. L. (2019). From the story to the storyteller: Life narration across personality assessment paradigms. Qualitative Psychology, 6, 167-177.
Dunlop, W. L. (2019). Love as story, love as storytelling. Personal Relationships, 26, 114-136.
Dunlop, W. L., & Hanley, G. E. (2019). Contextualizing personality: Personality within and across social roles and conceptual levels. Journal of Personality, 87, 903-914.
Bühler, J., & Dunlop, W. L. (2019). The narrative identity approach and romantic relationships. Social and Personality Psychological Compass, e1244.
Dunlop, W. L., Hanley, G. E., & McCoy, T. P. (2019). The narrative psychology of love lives. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 36, 761-784.
2018
Dunlop, W. L., Harake, N., Gray, J., Hanley, G. E., & McCoy, T. P. (2018). The rises and falls of romance: Considering redemption, contamination, and affective tone in the narrative construction of love lives. Journal of Research in Personality, 74, 23-29.
Dunlop, W. L., Harake, N., & Wilkinson, D. (2018). The cultural psychology of Clinton and Trump supporters: A narrative approach. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 9, 193-204.
Dunlop, W. L., McCoy, T. P., Harake, N. & Gray, J. (2018). When I think about you I project myself: Examining idiographic goals from the perspective of self and other. Social and Personality Psychological Science, 9, 586-594.
2017
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). Research methods for studying narrative identity: A primer. Social and Personality Psychological Science, 8, 519-527.
Baranski, E. N., Morse, P. J., & Dunlop, W. L. (2017). Lay conceptions of volitional personality change: From strategies pursued to stories told. Journal of Personality, 85, 285-299.
Dunlop, W. L. (2017). The narrative identity structural model (NISM). Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 37, 153-177.
Dunlop, W. L., Bannon, B. L., & McAdams, D. P. (2017). Studying the motivated agent through time: Personal goal development during the adult lifespan. Journal of Personality, 85, 207-219.
Dunlop, W. L., McCoy, T. P., & Staben, O. (2017). From personal goals disclosed to personality judgments composed: Trait perceptions made on the basis of idiographic goals. Journal of Research in Personality, 68, 82-87.
Dunlop, W. L., Hanley, G. E., McCoy, T. P., & Harake, N. (2017). Sticking to the (romantic) script: A examination of love life scripts, stories, and self-reports of normality. Memory, 25, 1444-1454.
2016
Dunlop, W. L., Guo, J., & McAdams, D. P. (2016). The autobiographical author through time: Examining the degree of stability and change in redemptive and contaminated personal narratives. Social and Personality Psychological Science, 7, 428-436.
McCoy, T. P. & Dunlop, W. L. (2016). Contextualizing narrative identity: A consideration of assessment settings. Journal of Research in Personality, 65, 16-21.
2015
Dunlop, W. L. (2015). Lives as the organizing principle in personality psychology. European Journal of Personality, 29, 353-357.
Dunlop, W. L. (2015). Taking historical time seriously. European Journal of Personality, 29, 389-390.
Dunlop, W. L. (2015). Contextualized personality, beyond traits. European Journal of Personality, 29, 310-325.
Ghane, A., Sweeny, K., & Dunlop, W. L. (2015). A multi-method approach to women’s reproductive health screening. Women’s Reproductive Health, 2, 37-55.
Dunlop, W. L., & Walker, L. J. (2015). Cross-cultural variability in self-continuity warranting strategies. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 34, 300-315.
Dunlop, W. L., Walker, L. J., & Wiens, T. K. (2015). The redemptive story: A requisite for sustaining prosocial behavioral patterns following traumatic experiences. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 28, 228-242.