I. Becoming an Actor

1. In the Beginning

2. The Actor Takes the Stage: How We Perform Emotion

3. The Problem of Self-Regulation

4. The Actor Grows Up: How Traits Develop into Adulthood

II. Becoming an Agent

5. The Age 5–7 Shift

6. The Motivational Agenda: What Agents Want

7. How Values Shape Agency: Morality, Religion, and Politics

III. Becoming an Author

8. The Stories We Live By

9. Generative Lives, Redemptive Life Stories

10. The Sense of an Ending