McAdams (born February 7, 1954) is a professor and chair of the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University.He was raised in Gary, Indiana, where he attended nearby Valparaiso University.
In 1979 he was awarded a Ph.D.
from the Harvard Department of Social Relations.McAdams is the author of The Person: An Introduction to the Science of Personality Psychology, a classroom textbook.
He co-edited, with Amia Lieblich and Ruthellen Josselson, the eleven-book series "The Narrative Study of Lives".
He is a member of The Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group at the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics.