Daniel Lapsley

Daniel Lapsley is the ACE Collegiate Professor and former chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame.

Lapsley’s research focuses on various topics in adolescent social cognitive and personality development, including work on adolescent invulnerability and risk behavior, narcissism, separation-individuation, self, ego and identity development, and college adjustment. He also studies the moral dimensions of personality and other topics in moral psychology, and has written on moral identity and moral and character education.

Professor Lapsley is the author or editor of seven books, including Personality, Identity and Character: Explorations in Moral Psychology (co-edited with D. Narvaez; 2009); Character psychology and character education (co-edited with F. C. Power; 2005); Moral development, self and identity (co-edited with D. Narvaez; 2004); and Moral psychology (1996; translated into Korean and Mandarin Chinese). He has published over 120 articles and chapters on various topics on adolescent development and educational psychology, and he currently serves on the editorial boards of the periodicals Applied Developmental Science, Human Development, Educational Psychologist and the Journal of Early Adolescence.