Oops! Yes, my mistake! Sorry!

Thanks to Kathleen Bogart, @cindymcp.bsky.social, Phia Salter, Amber Gayle Thalmayer, Sarah Stanton, Eranda Jayawickreme, Stephen Baffour Adjei, Pegah Nejat, Ligia Oliveira-Silva and to @spspnews.bsky.social for this once-in-a-career opportunity.

Please read our final reflections! Knowing that it is now in the hands of the incomparable @eranda.bsky.social is great solace, as the journal will only continue to get better.

The end of my term as Editor of Personality and Social Psychology Review is profoundly bittersweet. While it is a relief not to oversee the day-to-day influx of manuscripts, I will greatly miss the opportunity to work with this stellar team on a journal I am so proud of. doi.org/10.1177/1088...

(In a delightful twist, my new segment got stitched together with a rebroadcast of an older episode featuring the incomparable @elijfinkel.bsky.social, one of my grad school professors, whose work on marriage is captivating. I couldn’t ask for a better Hidden Brain buddy!)

Love 2.0: Reimagining Our Relationships - Hidden Brain Media There are signs it's getting even harder. In this episode, we explore how long-term relationships have changed over time and whether we might be able to improve marriage by asking less of it.

I was absolutely delighted to revisit the @hiddenbrain.bsky.social team for a follow-up to my original episode. These follow-ups are called “Your Questions Answered.” (My segment starts at 55:20) Here’s the link:
www.hiddenbrain.org/podcast/reim...

along with Amber Gayle Thalmayer and myself. We have written an introductory piece that frames the goals for the issue. Thanks to our publisher, all contributions are available for free to all readers. Please share it widely!

This project was created during a discussion at our annual event for the PSPR Editorial Board & Emerging Editor Board and took almost two years to bring to reality. It was overseen by the journal’s first two Editorial Fellows, Stephen Baffour Adjei (from Ghana) and Pegah Nejat (from Iran),

I’m very proud to share this Special Issue of PSPR, “Highlighting Personality & Social Psychological Theories From Majority World Contexts.” spsp.org/news/spsp-ne...

Register now for our exclusive virtual workshop: The Art and Science of Storytelling for Health. Dr. Annie Brewster and Dr. Jonathan Adler will lead three sessions designed for interdisciplinary professionals interested in integrating the transformative power of storytelling. ow.ly/55x450WvFCx

Opinion | I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students.

As always, no one says it better than @meghanor.bsky.social . This is a MUST read for anyone thinking about the role of generative AI in our lives today (which should be all of us). www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

Boston Arts Academy steps in to help craft the next Ufot Cycle play: ‘Kufre n’ Quay’ - The Boston Globe Twelve current BAA students are in the show, which is a co-production with the Wheelock Family Theatre.

I couldn't be more excited to see "Kufre n Quay" later this month. Levi Mngomezulu, who is playing Kufre, has been one of our son's best friends since first grade and I have watched his theatrical growth over those years. I'm sure he will absolutely shine. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/02/a...

HUGE congrats, Bill! What a fantastic department you're going to (and what a fantastic one you're leaving behind too). They are lucky to have you!

If you or someone you know is interested, please email me: jadler@olin.edu

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story | TED YouTube video by TED

It doesn’t need to be an extreme story, just an everyday experience of feeling stuck in a story other people were telling about people like you. Thanks! (Here's the brilliant original TED talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie introducing that concept: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ih...)

For my book I’m looking to interview people who have an experience of “the danger of a single story.” Have you had an experience where you felt reduced to one storyline, maybe some category (race, gender, sexuality, etc.), or some other thing that seemed to trump everything else about you?

Books take a really long time to come into the world, so look for this one in February 2027. In the meantime, I’m looking forward to talking with YOU to shape this book about identity!

And, while I have missed @olincollege.bsky.social, I want to give a HUGE shout-out to my community of Fellows in the Newhouse Center at @wellesley.edu this year, who have been the most dreamy colleagues to work alongside on this project.

I’ll be working with the amazing Executive Editor, Anna Paustenbach. And none of this would have been possible without my stellar agent at #UTA, the Co-Head of Publishing, Christy Fletcher.

I couldn’t be happier to have landed at PRH Avery. Their slogan is “We publish nonfiction that doesn’t just change the conversation, it changes lives.” And that’s precisely what I hope the book will do.

Tentatively titled “Identity Theft: Who We Are & Who We Might Become,” the book will use compelling stories of what I’m calling “identity theft” (when you lose narrative authority over your life) to illustrate the science of narrative identity & to push our thinking about identity in today’s world.

As many of you know, I’ve spent this sabbatical year working on a book project. I’m thrilled to announce that, as of yesterday, I officially have a contract with @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social’s @avery-books.bsky.social imprint to publish the book!

My husband and I are flying with our kids from Boston to DC next week to see it as a family, since we loved it as a family!

As a personality psychologist and a theater kid, I can tell you the reference is not to Mischel, but to Shakespeare. In Twelfth Night, Malvolio says “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”

And is it “comprised of,” “comprised by,” “comprising,” “composed of,” or “composing”??

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The Association for Research in Personality is soliciting abstracts for the 2025 Biennial Meeting scheduled to take place June 26-28, 2025 in Evanston (suburb of Chicago), IL, USA!

You tagged me instead of the Jonathan Adler you intended.

It is a vital paper, folks! Give it a read!

Friends, it is a stellar paper. Give it a read now!