Research Experience in Personality

The seminar will explore an interactive, experiential research paradigm that combines McAdams' narrative psychology with Rogers' theory of interpersonal relationships. After a brief overview of underlying theoretical constructs, participants in the seminar will work within the paradigm’s framework and assess the impact that it makes on the experience of identity and of relationship quality as these are understood within the existential/humanistic tradition of personality psychology. At the end of the semester, participants will prepare a paper integrating their personal experience of the interactive process with an analysis of objective data collected throughout the semester.