BOOKS
CONCEPTUAL, REVIEW & METHODOLOGICAL ARTICLES
2025 Hammack, P. L., & Josselson, R. Person-centered narrative analysis: A methodological retrospective and primer. Qualitative Psychology, 12(3), 416-434. https://doi.org/10.1037/qup0000341
2025 Hammack, P. L. Sexual and gender diversity beyond minority identities: Do empirical trends call for a paradigm shift? Review of General Psychology, 29(3), 337-355. https://doi.org/10.1177/10892680251363847
2025 Hammack, P. L., & Manago, A. M. The psychology of sexual and gender diversity in the twenty-first century: Social technologies and stories of authenticity. American Psychologist, 80(3), 375-388. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/amp0001366
2020 Frost, D.M., Hammack, P.L., Wilson, B.D.M., Russell, S.T., Lightfoot, M., & Meyer, I.H. The qualitative interview in psychology and the study of social change: Sexual identity development, minority stress, and health in the Generations Study. Qualitative Psychology, 7(3), 245-266. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/qup0000148
2019 Hammack, P.L., Frost, D.M., & Hughes, S.D. Queer intimacies: A new paradigm for the study of relationship diversity. The Journal of Sex Research, 56 (Special issue: Annual Review of Sex Research), 556-592. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2018.1531281
2018 Hammack, P.L. Gay men’s identity development in the twenty-first century: Continuity and change, normalization and resistance. Human Development, 61, 101-125. https://doi.org/10.1159/000486469
2018 Hammack, P.L. Social psychology and social justice: Critical principles and perspectives for the twenty-first century. In P.L. Hammack (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of social psychology and social justice (pp. 3-39). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199938735.013.1
2018 Hammack, P.L., Frost, D.M., Meyer, I.H., & Pletta, D. Gay men’s health and identity: Social change and the life course. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 47, 59-74. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-017-0990-9
2015 Hammack, P.L., & Toolis, E.E. Putting the social into personal identity: The master narrative as root metaphor for psychological and developmental science. Human Development, 58, 350-364. https://doi.org/10.1159/000446054
2014 Hammack, P. L., & Toolis, E.E. Narrative and the social construction of adulthood. New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development, 145, 43-56. https://doi.org/10.1002/cad.20066
2013 Hammack, P.L., Mayers, L., & Windell, E.P. Narrative, psychology, and the politics of sexual identity in the United States: From “sickness” to “species” to “subject.” Psychology & Sexuality, 4(3), 219-243. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2011.621131
2012 Hammack, P.L., & Pilecki, A. Narrative as a root metaphor for political psychology. Political Psychology, 33(1), 75-103. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9221.2011.00859.x
2009 Hammack, P.L., & Cohler, B.J. Narrative engagement and sexual identity: An interdisciplinary approach to the study of sexual lives. In P.L. Hammack & B.J. Cohler (Eds.), The story of sexual identity: Narrative perspectives on the gay and lesbian life course (pp. 3-22). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195326789.003.0001
2008 Hammack, P.L. Narrative and the cultural psychology of identity. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 12(3), 222-247. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868308316892
2007 Cohler, B.J., & Hammack, P.L. The psychological world of the gay teenager: Social change, narrative, and “normality.” Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 36, 47-59. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-006-9110-1
2005 Hammack, P.L. The life course development of human sexual orientation: An integrative paradigm. Human Development, 48, 267-290. https://doi.org/10.1159/000086872
SPECIAL ISSUES
SELECT ARTICLES - EMPIRICAL STUDIES
2026 Hammack, P. L., Chen, S., Ching, B. H., Mulya, T. W., & Zheng, L. (Eds.). The cultural psychology of sexuality in the 21st century. Psychology & Sexuality. (Forthcoming)
2023 Hammack, P. L., & Wignall, L. (Eds.). Sexual and gender diversity in the 21st century. Current Opinion in Psychology. https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/106X8THK2RR
2024 Hammack, P. L., & Wignall, L. “Be dog have fun”: Narratives of discovery, meaning, and motivation among members of the pup subculture. Sexuality & Culture, 28, 2537-2556. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-024-10242-y
2024 Hammack, P. L., Pletta, D. P., Hughes, S. D., Atwood, J. M., Cohen, E. M., & Clark, R. C. Community support for sexual and gender diversity, minority stress, and mental health: A mixed-methods study of adolescents with minoritized sexual and gender identities. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 11(2), 250-268. https://doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000591
2023 Copulsky, D., & Hammack, P. L. Asexuality, graysexuality, and demisexuality: Distinctions in desire, behavior, and identity. The Journal of Sex Research, 60(2), 221-230. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2021.2012113
2022 Hammack, P. L., Grecco, B., Wilson, B. D. M., & Meyer, I. H. “White, tall, top, masculine, muscular”: Narratives of intracommunity stigma in young sexual minority men’s experience on mobile apps. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 51, 2413-2428. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-021-02144-z
2022 Hammack, P. L., Hughes, S. D., Atwood, J. M., Cohen, E. M., & Clark, R. Gender and sexual identity in adolescence: A mixed methods study of labeling in diverse community settings. Journal of Adolescent Research, 37(2), 167-220. https://doi.org/10.1177/07435584211000315
2022 Hughes, S.D., & Hammack, P.L. Narratives of the origins of kinky desires held by users of a kink-oriented social networking website. The Journal of Sex Research, 59(3), 360-371. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2020.1840495
2021 Meyer, I. H., Russell, S. T., Hammack, P. L., Frost, D. M., & Wilson, B. D. M. Minority stress, distress, and suicide attempts in three cohorts of sexual minority adults: A U.S. probability sample. PLoS ONE, 16(3), e0246827. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246827
2020 Barsigian, L., Hammack, P.L., Morrow, Q., Wilson, B.D.M., & Russell, S.T. Narratives of gender, sexuality, and community in three generations of genderqueer sexual minorities. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 7(3), 276-292. https://doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000384
2020 Bishop, M. D., Fish, J. N., Hammack, P. L., & Russell, S. T. Sexual identity development milestones in three generations of sexual minority people: A national probability sample. Developmental Psychology, 56(11), 2177-2193. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001105
2019 Hammack, P.L., Toolis, E.E., Wilson, B.D.M., Clark, R., & Frost, D.M. Making meaning of the impact pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) on public health and sexual culture: Narratives of three generations of gay and bisexual men. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 48, 1041-1058. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-019-1417-6
2019 Hughes, S.D., & Hammack, P.L. Affirmation, compartmentalization, and isolation: Narratives of identity sentiment among kinky people. Psychology & Sexuality, 10(2), 149-168. https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2019.1575896
2011 Hammack, P.L., & Cohler, B.J. Narrative, identity, and the politics of exclusion: Social change and the gay and lesbian life course. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 8, 162-182. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-011-0060-3
2009 Hammack, P.L., Thompson, E.M., & Pilecki, A. Configurations of identity among sexual minority youth: Context, desire, and narrative. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 38, 867-883. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-008-9342-3