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Markus Quirin

PFH Private University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Markus Quirin's applied himself to the exploration of personality, motivation, emotion, and self-regulation, along with their neural mechanisms. Having earned his PhD in Psychology from Osnabrueck University, Germany, Quirin was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University in 2016. Currently, he holds the position of Professor of Personality and Motivation Psychology at PFH Göttingen, coupled with the role of a research fellow at the Technical University of Munich. Markus Quirin has contributed significantly to the field, authoring over 70 peer-reviewed research articles in esteemed specialized and interdisciplinary journals. His collaborative efforts have resulted in the development and publication of the Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test (IPANAT), a broadly validated and internationally recognized standardized measure for indirect assessment of affect, that is available in more than 10 language versions. Markus Quirin's contributions extend to pioneering various research domains, including the neuroscience of attachment styles, emotional needs, and co-founding the field of Existential Neuroscience. Demonstrating a steadfast commitment to a process-oriented understanding of personality from the outset, he currently advocates for the Dynamics of Personality approach and related theoretical integration.

Dan McAdams

Northwestern University, USA

​Dan P. McAdams is the Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology and Professor of Human Development and Social Policy at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.   In 2022-23, he served as the Interim Dean of Northwestern’s School of Education and Social Policy.  Professor McAdams received his B.S. degree from Christ College, Valparaiso University in 1976, and his Ph.D. in Psychology and Social Relations from Harvard University in 1979.  He has won numerous awards for teaching and was named a Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence at Northwestern, 1995-98. 
 
Author of over 300 scientific articles and chapters, numerous edited volumes, and 8 books, Professor McAdams works in the areas of personality and life-span developmental psychology.  His theoretical and empirical writings focus on concepts of self and identity in contemporary American society and on themes of power, intimacy, redemption, and generativity across the adult life course.  Professor McAdams is a leader in the emergence within the social sciences of narrative conceptions of human lives – approaches that place stories and storytelling at the center of human personality.   Within personality science, he has pioneered research on narrative identity, which he defines as a person’s internalized and evolving story explaining how they believe they have become the unique person they are becoming.  He has focused special attention on life stories that track overcoming adversity, persevering in the face of suffering, and related redemptive themes, and has examined how these stories reflect American cultural motifs. McAdams has been funded by major grants from The Spencer Foundation and the Templeton Foundation.  From 1997 through 2019, he was funded by the Foley Family Foundation to direct the Foley Center for the Study of Lives at Northwestern University.
 
Most notably, Professor McAdams is the author of The Redemptive Self:  Stories Americans Live By (Oxford University Press, 2006/2013), which won the 2006 William James Award from the American Psychological Association for best general-interest book in psychology, across all subfields, and the 2007 Association of American Publishers Award for excellence in professional and scholarly publishing.  He is also the author of George W. Bush and the Redemptive Dream:  A Psychological Portrait (Oxford University Press, 2011), The Art and Science of Personality Development (Guilford Press, 2015), and, most recently, The Person:  A New Introduction to Personality Psychology (with William Dunlop, Wiley, 2022). 
 
Finally, Professor McAdams is the author of The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump:  A Psychological Reckoning (Oxford University Press, 2020).  Blending biographical sources and cutting-edge research in personality, developmental, and social psychology, the book provides the first evidence-based, objective psychological interpretation of the life and presidency of Donald J. Trump, aiming to explain how Mr. Trump has come to be the person he is. 
 
Professor McAdams is the 1989 winner of the Henry A. Murray Award from the American Psychological Association for research on personality and the study of lives, the 2006 Theodore Sarbin Award for contributions to theoretical and philosophical psychology, and the 2012 Jack Block Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology for career contributions to personality psychology.  He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 8) and the Association for Psychological Science, has served on the Executive Committee of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and is a founding member of the Association for Research in Personality (ARP), and he served as President of ARP 2016-18. His work has been featured in many national publications and media outlets including the New York Times, the New Yorker, The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Newsweek, and he has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and many other television and radio venues.  

Daniel Cervone 
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University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)

Daniel Cervone is Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). He earned his Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University, where his graduate advisor was Albert Bandura. In addition to his position at UIC, Dan has been a visiting faculty member at the University of Washington, Sapienza University of Rome, and the University of Chichester; a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences; and a Senior Research Assistant at the United States Naval Academy. His service to the field includes his roles as Chairperson of the inaugural convention of the Association for Research in Personality (San Antonio, Texas, 2001) and US-based Chairperson of the inaugural International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS, Amsterdam, 2015).

Dan’s primary line of theory and research advances a conceptual model of personality architecture, the Knowledge and Appraisal Personality Architecture or KAPA model (Cervone, Psychological Review, 2004). Theoretically, the KAPA model advances from prior social-cognitive models of personality by delineating a principled, comprehensive system of social-cognitive personality structures and processes and their interactions with affective systems. Methodologically, the theoretical model guides idiographically-tailored assessment methods that have revealed distinctive patterns of personality coherence at the level of the individual case in basic research as well as applications in clinical, health, and educational psychology, and the study of virtue and character. Additional areas of research address self-efficacy processes, self-regulation, and the influence of affective states on thinking about the self. 

​In addition to numerous journal articles, Dan has co-authored the graduate-level personality text Personality: Determinants, Dynamics, and Potentials with Gian Vittorio Caprara; the undergraduate personality text Personality: Theory and Research with Lawrence Pervin; and is author of the introductory psychology text Psychology: The Science of Person, Mind, and Brain. His edited books include The Coherence of Personality with Yuichi Shoda; Advances in Personality Science with Walter Mischel; and Personality Dynamics: Meaning Construction, the Social World, and the Embodied Mind, with Małgorzata Fajkowska, Michael Eysenck, and Thomas Maruszewski. He is Editor of the posthumous publication, A. Bandura (2023), Social Cognitive Theory: An Agentic Perspective on Human Nature, and is author of The Architecture of Personality (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press).