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Monisha Pasupathi

Monisha Pasupathi

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Psychology

D-Index
50
Citations
14457
World Ranking
5357
National Ranking
2929

Overview

Monisha Pasupathi is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States. Their research spans mainly the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a notable focus on developmental and educational psychology, education, sociology and political science, clinical psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The primary areas of Pasupathi's work include identity, memory, and therapy; memory processes and influences; family support in illness; resilience and mental health; skin protection and aging; early childhood education and development; and psychological and temporal perspectives research.

Pasupathi has contributed to various publication venues, with multiple papers appearing in Developmental Psychology and Cutaneous and Ocular Toxicology. Other venues include Trends in Cognitive Sciences, European Journal of Personality, and Emerging Adulthood.

Recent papers by Pasupathi include:

  • "Intraindividual Variability in Narrative Identity: Complexities, Garden Paths, and Untapped Research Potential," 2020, European Journal of Personality
  • "College, Interrupted: Profiles in First-Year College Students Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic Across One Year," 2022, Emerging Adulthood

Other papers that feature Pasupathi either as an author or in close collaboration cover related topics in cognitive and developmental psychology. Notable examples from 2022 and 2023 include works addressing narrative identity, conversational influences on autobiographical memory, and student experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Frequent collaborators in Pasupathi's research include Kate C. McLean, Cecilia Wainryb, Robyn Fivush, Andrea Follmer Greenhoot, and Jordan A. Booker.

These collaborations, along with publications in prominent psychology journals, highlight a focus on understanding narrative identity, memory processes, and developmental influences in social and educational contexts.

Best Publications

  • Emotional experience in everyday life across the adult life span.

    Laura L. Carstensen;Monisha Pasupathi;Ulrich Mayr;John R. Nesselroade

  • Emotion and aging: experience, expression, and control.

    James J. Gross;Laura L. Carstensen;Monisha Pasupathi;Jeanne Tsai

  • Selves Creating Stories Creating Selves: A Process Model of Self-Development

    Kate C. McLean;Monisha Pasupathi;Jennifer L. Pals

  • The social construction of the personal past and its implications for adult development.

    Monisha Pasupathi

  • Developing a life story: Constructing relations between self and experience in autobiographical narratives.

    Monisha Pasupathi;E. Mansour;J R Brubaker

  • Passenger and cell phone conversations in simulated driving

    Frank A. Drews;Monisha Pasupathi;David L. Strayer

  • Research Methods for Studying Narrative Identity: A Primer

    Jonathan M. Adler;William L. Dunlop;Robyn Fivush;Jennifer P. Lilgendahl

  • Seeds of wisdom: adolescents' knowledge and judgment about difficult life problems.

    Monisha Pasupathi;Ursula M. Staudinger;Paul B. Baltes

  • Winning friends and influencing peers: Strategies of peer influence in late childhood

    Patricia H. Hawley;Todd D. Little;Monisha Pasupathi

  • Adult age differences in autobiographical reasoning in narratives.

    Monisha Pasupathi;Emma Mansour

  • The empirical structure of narrative identity: The initial big three

    Kate C. McLean;Moin Syed;Monisha Pasupathi;Jonathan M. Adler

  • The development of narrative identity in late adolescence and emergent adulthood: the continued importance of listeners.

    Monisha Pasupathi;Timothy Hoyt

  • How what we tell becomes what we know: Listener effects on speakers’ long‐term memory for events

    Monisha Pasupathi;Lisa M. Stallworth;Kyle Murdoch

  • Age and emotional experience during mutual reminiscing.

    Monisha Pasupathi;Laura L. Carstensen

  • Processes of Identity Development: Where I Am and How I Got There

    Kate C. McLean;Monisha Pasupathi

  • Emotion regulation during social remembering: differences between emotions elicited during an event and emotions elicited when talking about it.

    Monisha Pasupathi

  • Inattentive Listening Undermines Self-Verification in Personal Storytelling

    Monisha Pasupathi;Ben Rich

  • On telling the whole story: facts and interpretations in autobiographical memory narratives from childhood through midadolescence.

    Monisha Pasupathi;Cecilia Wainryb

  • To Tell or Not to Tell: Disclosure and the Narrative Self

    Monisha Pasupathi;Kate C. McLean;Trisha Weeks

  • Developing Moral Agency through Narrative

    Monisha Pasupathi;Cecilia Wainryb

  • Winning friends and inè uencing peers: Strategies of peer inè uence in late childhood*

    Patricia H. Hawley;Todd D. Little;Monisha Pasupathi

Frequent Co-Authors

Cecilia Wainryb
Cecilia Wainryb University of Utah
Kate C. McLean
Kate C. McLean Western Washington University
Robyn Fivush
Robyn Fivush Emory University
Laura L. Carstensen
Laura L. Carstensen Stanford University
Moin Syed
Moin Syed University of Minnesota
Todd D. Little
Todd D. Little Texas Tech University
Dan P. McAdams
Dan P. McAdams Northwestern University
Patricia H. Hawley
Patricia H. Hawley Texas Tech University
Carol Sansone
Carol Sansone University of Utah

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