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THE Narrative Identity and Well-being Lab

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Research Projects

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People

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Research Projects
Research Projects

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In the Narrative Identity and Well-Being Lab, we aim to discover how young people create and maintain healthy identities.​

Our work focuses on how people use narratives to construct and maintain their identity. We focus on the narration of Big life events such as challenges, stressors, and turning points because research shows that they are important to identity development, memory, and well-being. We pay special attention to these processes in adolescence and emerging adulthood. However, we have also worked with older adults and children at times because humans are narrative, meaning-making beings throughout the lifespan. The final piece of the puzzle in our research is just starting and it involves studies that will help us better understand relationships between narrating and physiology. How does narrative meaning-making arise from the physical body and how does narrating impact physiology?

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People
Cade Mansfield, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator, Lab Director 
 
J Rottman
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Marwa Elhawwam
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Marwa is a Junior from Cairo, Egypt. She is a Psychology and Business Double major and an Anthropology minor.
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H.Wong
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HiuChun wong
HiuChun is a senior from Hong Kong. He is a Cognitive Science and Philosophy double major.
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N.Nguyen
ngoc nguyen
Ngoc is a junior from Vietnam. She is a Psychology and Philosophy double major.
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katie pippenger
Katie is a senior from . She is a Psychology and German double major.
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esra savas
Esra is a senior from Lancaster, PA. She is a Psychology major and Anthropology minor.
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anara adylbekova
Anara is a Junior from Kyrgyzstan. She is a Psychology and Business double major.
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Gurlin kaur
Gurlin is a senior from New Delhi, India. She is a Psychology and Economics double major.
Publications
PUBLICATIONS

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A few sample publications, which report findings from data collected in the Narrative Identity and Well-Being Lab, are below. 

  • Grysman, A., Mansfield, C. D., Singer, J. A., Camia, C., Booker, J. A., Bauer, J. J., & Fivush, R. (2024). Human or artificial intelligence: Can people tell the difference in first-person narratives? Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000187

  • Mansfield, C. D., Pasupathi, M., & McLean, K. C. (2023). The challenges of the experimental paradigm in narrative identity research. Journal of Research in Personality, Special Issue on Storying the Good Life, eds J. Bauer, D. Thomsen. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8rw4z

  • Mansfield, C. D. (2022). Co-evolution of meaning-making and wisdom in processing and developmental time. In M. Munroe & M. Ferrari (Eds.), Post-traumatic growth to psychological well-being: Coping wisely with adversity. Springer.

  • Pasupathi, M. P., Wainryb, C., Bourne, S., & Mansfield, C. D. (2022). The psychophysiology of narrating distressing experiences. Narrative Inquiry, 33(1). https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.21102.pas

  • Grysman, A., & Mansfield, C. D. (2020). Narrative methods in autobiographical memory. In S. Gülgöz & B. Sahin-Acar (Eds.), Autobiographical memory development: Theoretical and methodological approaches (pp. 67–82). Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429022791

  • Pasupathi, M., Oldroyd, K., Wainryb, C., & Mansfield, C. D. (2019). Maternal narration about parenting pride and regret is related to youth emotion regulation. Social Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12401

  • Mansfield, C. D., & Diamond, L. M. (2017). Does stress-related growth matter for adolescents’ day-to-day adaptive functioning? Journal of Early Adolescence, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272431615620665

  • Grysman, A., & Mansfield, C. D. (2017). What do we have when we have a narrative? Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 37(2), 105–126. https://doi.org/10.1177/0276236617733823

  • Grysman, A., & Mansfield, C. D. (2017). Editorial. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 37(2), 103–104. https://doi.org/10.1177/0276236617740231

  • Pasupathi, M., Wainryb, C., Mansfield, C. D., & Bourne, S. B. (2016). The feeling of the story: Narrating to regulate anger and sadness. Cognition and Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2015.1127214

  • Mansfield, C. D. (2015). Do different types of negative events lead to distinct types of adaptive functioning threats? ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global.

  • Mansfield, C. D., Pasupathi, M., & McLean, K. C. (2015). Is narrating growth in stories of personal transgressions associated with increased well-being, self-compassion, and forgiveness of others? Journal of Research in Personality, 58, 69–83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2015.05.008

  • Pasupathi, M., Billitteri, J., Mansfield, C. D., Wainryb, C., Hanley, G. E., & Taheri, K. (2015). Regulating emotion and identity by narrating harm. Journal of Research in Personality, 58, 127–136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2015.07.003

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