Publications and Current Work
Research Trajectory: I study how personal and historical crises shape identity, emotion, and well-being through stories of lived experience. My work to date has examined narrative identity, collective memory, and life challenges—including personal crises across adulthood and marital conflict resolution. My dissertation extends this by analyzing how people narrate collective historical crises, highlighting emotion and identity processes. Moving forward, I aim to expand this focus to ongoing sociopolitical conflict and to how emotion and storytelling shape meaning-making across both personal and collective contexts.
Published / In Press
Ture, S., Bonner, C. V., Yuan, M., & McAdams, D. P. (2025).
Historical consciousness: Recollections of major historical events in the personal life story
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Advance online publication.
https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672251321018Lind, M., Ture, S., McAdams, D. P., & Cowan, H. R. (2024).
Narrative identity, traits, and trajectories of depression and well-being: A 9-year longitudinal study
Psychological Science, 35(12), 1325–1339.
https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976241296512McAdams, D. P., & Ture, S. (in press).
Narrative identity
In T. Pyszczynski & S. J. Starr (Eds.), Handbook of the science of existential psychology. Guilford Press.
Under Review / In Preparation
Ture, S., Lam, P. H., Ouellet, L., Simpson, A., Hassinen, K., McAdams, D. P., & Reischer, H. N. (under review).
Agency and communion across nine years of middle adulthood: Between- and within-person associations with psychological and developmental outcomes
Journal of Adult Development.Ture, S., Cowan, H. R., McAdams, D. P. & Lind, M. (manuscript in prep).
Narrative Processing of Yearly Life Challenges and Wellbeing Across Late Midlife: A Topic Modeling ApproachJones, C. M., Ture, S. & Mitchell, A. (manuscript in prep.).
"This didn't just pop up out of nowhere": Multiracial and monoracial Black adults contextualizing Black Lives Matter 2020Ture, S., Vosgueritchian, H., Khaty, R., Allé, M., Boulos, L.-J., & McAdams, D. P. (project underway).
Narrative processing of collective crises through emotion and meaningTure, S., Kim, A., & Haase, C. M. (project underway).
Emotional vs. issue resolution in marital conflict: A thematic conversation analysis
Conference Presentations
Jones, C. M., Ture, S., Mitchell, A., & Rogers, O. (2025, June).
Prompted to (re)consider: Black Lives Matter as a catalyst for Black (multi)racial identity processes
[Paper presentation]. Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood (SSEA), Charleston, South Carolina, USA.Ture, S., Kim, A., & Haase, C. M. (2025, March).
Emotional vs. issue resolution in marital conflict: A thematic conversation analysis
[Poster presentation]. Society for Affective Science Conference, Oregon.Ture, S., Cowan, H. R., McAdams, D. P. & Lind, M. (2025, February).
Narrative Processing of Yearly Life Challenges and Wellbeing Across Late Midlife: A Topic Modeling Approach
[Poster presentation]. Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Denver, CO.Ture, S., Yuan, M., Bonner, C., & McAdams, D. P. (2024, August).
Exploring Historical Consciousness: Incorporating the recollection of major historical events into the personal life story
[Symposium]. Biannual Meeting of the European Association of Personality Psychology, Berlin, Germany.Lind, M., Ture, S., Cowan, R.H., McAdams, D. (2023, August).
Challenging life events across time: well-being and depression
In Lind, M & Thomsen, D.K. (chairs), Autobiographical memory, life narratives, and mental health [Symposium]. The Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC), Nagoya, Japan.Ture, S., Yuan, M., Bonner, C., & McAdams, D. P. (2023, June).
Exploring Historical Consciousness: Incorporating the recollection of major historical events into the personal life story
[Poster presentation]. Special Interest Conference on Narrative Identity, Lille, France.Lind, M., Ture, S., Cowan, R.H., McAdams, D. (2023, June).
Challenging life events across time: well-being and depression
[Symposium]. The Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC), Lille, France.Ture, S., Datta A., Lam P., & McAdams, D. P. (2023, February).
Value and theme in the life Stories of late midlife adults: dimensions of agency and communion
[Poster presentation]. Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Atlanta, GA.Ture, S., Datta A., & McAdams, D. P. (2022, July).
Correlates of agency and communion in narrated values and life themes of late midlife adults
[Poster presentation]. Biannual Meeting of the European Association of Personality Psychology, Madrid, Spain.Ture, S., Reischer, H. N., Hassinen, K. C., & McAdams, D. P. (2022, February).
Exploratory processing and growth in life stories of late-midlife adults over nine years
[Poster presentation]. Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Francisco, CA.