Oops! Yes, my mistake! Sorry!
Oops! Yes, my mistake! Sorry!
Thanks to Kathleen Bogart, @cindymcp.bsky.social, Phia Salter, Amber Gayle Thalmayer, Sarah Stanton, Eranda Jayawickreme, Stephen Baffour Adjei, Pegah Nejat, Ligia Oliveira-Silva and to @spspnews.bsky.social for this once-in-a-career opportunity.
Please read our final reflections! Knowing that it is now in the hands of the incomparable @eranda.bsky.social is great solace, as the journal will only continue to get better.
The end of my term as Editor of Personality and Social Psychology Review is profoundly bittersweet. While it is a relief not to oversee the day-to-day influx of manuscripts, I will greatly miss the opportunity to work with this stellar team on a journal I am so proud of. doi.org/10.1177/1088...
(In a delightful twist, my new segment got stitched together with a rebroadcast of an older episode featuring the incomparable @elijfinkel.bsky.social, one of my grad school professors, whose work on marriage is captivating. I couldnβt ask for a better Hidden Brain buddy!)
I was absolutely delighted to revisit the @hiddenbrain.bsky.social team for a follow-up to my original episode. These follow-ups are called βYour Questions Answered.β (My segment starts at 55:20) Hereβs the link:
www.hiddenbrain.org/podcast/reim...
along with Amber Gayle Thalmayer and myself. We have written an introductory piece that frames the goals for the issue. Thanks to our publisher, all contributions are available for free to all readers. Please share it widely!
This project was created during a discussion at our annual event for the PSPR Editorial Board & Emerging Editor Board and took almost two years to bring to reality. It was overseen by the journalβs first two Editorial Fellows, Stephen Baffour Adjei (from Ghana) and Pegah Nejat (from Iran),
Iβm very proud to share this Special Issue of PSPR, βHighlighting Personality & Social Psychological Theories From Majority World Contexts.β spsp.org/news/spsp-ne...
Register now for our exclusive virtual workshop: The Art and Science of Storytelling for Health. Dr. Annie Brewster and Dr. Jonathan Adler will lead three sessions designed for interdisciplinary professionals interested in integrating the transformative power of storytelling. ow.ly/55x450WvFCx
As always, no one says it better than @meghanor.bsky.social . This is a MUST read for anyone thinking about the role of generative AI in our lives today (which should be all of us). www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
I couldn't be more excited to see "Kufre n Quay" later this month. Levi Mngomezulu, who is playing Kufre, has been one of our son's best friends since first grade and I have watched his theatrical growth over those years. I'm sure he will absolutely shine. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/02/a...
HUGE congrats, Bill! What a fantastic department you're going to (and what a fantastic one you're leaving behind too). They are lucky to have you!
If you or someone you know is interested, please email me: jadler@olin.edu
It doesnβt need to be an extreme story, just an everyday experience of feeling stuck in a story other people were telling about people like you. Thanks! (Here's the brilliant original TED talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie introducing that concept: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ih...)
For my book Iβm looking to interview people who have an experience of βthe danger of a single story.β Have you had an experience where you felt reduced to one storyline, maybe some category (race, gender, sexuality, etc.), or some other thing that seemed to trump everything else about you?
Books take a really long time to come into the world, so look for this one in February 2027. In the meantime, Iβm looking forward to talking with YOU to shape this book about identity!
And, while I have missed @olincollege.bsky.social, I want to give a HUGE shout-out to my community of Fellows in the Newhouse Center at @wellesley.edu this year, who have been the most dreamy colleagues to work alongside on this project.
Iβll be working with the amazing Executive Editor, Anna Paustenbach. And none of this would have been possible without my stellar agent at #UTA, the Co-Head of Publishing, Christy Fletcher.
I couldnβt be happier to have landed at PRH Avery. Their slogan is βWe publish nonfiction that doesnβt just change the conversation, it changes lives.β And thatβs precisely what I hope the book will do.
Tentatively titled βIdentity Theft: Who We Are & Who We Might Become,β the book will use compelling stories of what Iβm calling βidentity theftβ (when you lose narrative authority over your life) to illustrate the science of narrative identity & to push our thinking about identity in todayβs world.
As many of you know, Iβve spent this sabbatical year working on a book project. Iβm thrilled to announce that, as of yesterday, I officially have a contract with @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.socialβs @avery-books.bsky.social imprint to publish the book!
My husband and I are flying with our kids from Boston to DC next week to see it as a family, since we loved it as a family!
As a personality psychologist and a theater kid, I can tell you the reference is not to Mischel, but to Shakespeare. In Twelfth Night, Malvolio says βSome are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.β
And is it βcomprised of,β βcomprised by,β βcomprising,β βcomposed of,β or βcomposingβ??
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The Association for Research in Personality is soliciting abstracts for the 2025 Biennial Meeting scheduled to take place June 26-28, 2025 in Evanston (suburb of Chicago), IL, USA!
You tagged me instead of the Jonathan Adler you intended.
It is a vital paper, folks! Give it a read!
Friends, it is a stellar paper. Give it a read now!