Publications
For copies of these articles, please email dwwestberg@ucdavis.edu
Sociocultural Expectations Inform Identity and Health
Westberg, D. W., Pasco, M., & Meca, A. (submitted 2025, September). Unpacking conceptions of being American in relation to identity and mental health among emerging adults of color. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology.
Westberg. D. W., Chou, E., Jacobson, R., & Syed, M. (2025). Agency and Communion in Racial/Ethnic Narratives and Relations with Racial/Ethnic Identity. Under review at 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
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. A., Westberg, D. W.*, Perkins, V., Lawson, K., Hu, Z., McLean, K., Bottesini, J., Syed, M., & Chung, J. (submitted 2024, September). Examining personality psychology to unpack the peer review system: Towards a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable psychological science. Under review at European Journal of Personality.
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