Publications

Publications

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Sociocultural Expectations Inform Identity and Health

Westberg, D. W., Moffit, U., McLean, K. C., Syed, M. (under review). Using a master narrative framework to examine conversations about race and ethnicity. 

Westberg, D. W., Pasco, M., & Meca, A. (under review). Unpacking conceptions of being American in relation to identity and mental health among emerging adults of color. 

Westberg. D. W., Chou, E., Jacobson, R., & Syed, M. (2025). Agency and communion in racial/ethnic narratives and relations with racial/ethnic identity. Collabra: Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.138504

Jacobson, R., Westberg, D. W., Chou, E., Syed, M., & Weston, S. (2024). Using structural topic modeling of narratives to understand ethnicity-related experiences. Journal of Personality. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12966

Loyd, A. B., Westberg, D. W., Williams, L., Humphries, M., Meca., A., Rodil, J. C. (2023). “I just want to be me, authentically”: Identity shifting among racially and ethnically diverse young adults. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. 

Westberg, D. W. (2022). Stories off the beaten path: Exploring the content and correlates of cultural deviation narratives. Journal of Research in Personality. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2022.104266

Dunlop, W. L., & Westberg, D. W. (2022). On stories, conceptual space, and physical place: An ecological approach to the study of narrative identity. Personality Science. 

Structural-Individual Relations Shaped By Dominant Norms

Rogers, L. O., Syed, M., & Westberg, D. W. (2025). I’m just a girl; not a white girl”: Early adolescents making sense of race and gender intersectionality and identity. Journal of Adolescent Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/07435584251334729

Chou, E., Westberg, D. W., Nguyen, L. P., & Syed, M. (2024). The structure and correlates of narcissism among U.S. racial/ethnic groups. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/w3rxe/ 

Wilkinson, D., & Dunlop, W. L. (2022). Ethnic-racial life scripts: Relations with ethnic-racial identity and psychological health. Emerging Adulthood, 1-18. doi: 10.1177/2167696820968691 

The Intersectional and Contextualized Nature of Personality and Identity

Chou, E., Hedrick, N. I., Westberg, D. W., Udochi, A. L., Rogers, M. A., Holtzmann, N. S., Syed, M., &  DeYoung, C. G. (2026). Life narratives and the ten aspects of the big five. Journal of Personality. http://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.70080 

Westberg, D. W., Syed, M., & Loyd, A. B. (2024). Using intersectionality to understand how structural domains are embedded in life narratives. Journal of Personality, 93(4), 913-928.  https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12984  

Westberg, D. W., & Syed, M. (2024). Integrating personality psychology and intersectionality to advance diversity in the study of persons. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12956   

Syed, M., & Westberg, D. W. (2023). Building better models of racial/ethnic identity development. Invited commentary. Human Development. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/q942c/ 

Advancing Diversity and Inclusivity in Psychological Science

Westberg, D. W. & Lilgendahl, J. P. (forthcoming). Expanding the study of narrative identity in personality science. Invited chapter to be published in R. Robins & E. Beck (eds), Handbook of Research Methods in Personality Psychology, 2nd Edition, Guilford Press.

Atherton, O. E.*, Westberg, D. W.*, Perkins, V., Lawson, K. M., Jeftic, A., Jayawickreme, E., Zhang, S., 
Hu, Z., McLean, K. C., Bottesini, J., Syed, M., & Chung, J. M. (2024). Examining personality psychology to unpack the peer review system: Towards a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable psychological science. European Journal of Personality. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070241301629 * denotes shared first authorship

Ledgerwood, A., Lawson, K. M., Kraus, M. W., Vollhardt, J. R., Remedios, J. D., Westberg, D. W., Uskul, A. K., Adetula, A., Leach, C. W., Martinez, J. E., Naumann, L. P., Reddy, G., Tate, C., Todd, A. R., Weltzien, K., Buchanan, N. T., González, R., Montilla Doble, L. J., Romero-Canyas, R., Westgate, E., & Zou, L. X. (2024). Disrupting racism and global exclusion in academic publishing: Recommendations and resources for authors, reviewers, and editors. Collabra: Psychology. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/whc76 

Narratives, Politics, and Relationships

Dunlop, W. L., Wilkinson, D., & Harake, N. (2021). Episodic Master Narratives through time: Exploring the temporal dynamism of 2016 election night stories. European Journal of Social Psychology, 51, 1-13. doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2790 

Wilkinson, D., & Dunlop, W. L. (2020). Both sides of the story: Narratives of romantic infidelity. Personal Relationships, 1-27. doi: 10.1111/pere.12355

Dunlop, W. L., Wilkinson, D., Harake, N., Graham, L., & Lee, D. (2020). The redemption and contamination research form: Exploring relations with narrative identity, personality traits, and life satisfaction. Memory, 28, 1219-1230. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2020.1828926 

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. doi: 1948550617732611