Susanne Cook-Greuter
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| Susanne Cook-Greuter | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 1945 Switzerland |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Swiss-American |
| 🎓 Alma mater | University of Zurich Harvard University |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Maturity Assessment Profile (MAP) |
Susanne Regina Cook-Greuter (born January 1945) is a Swiss-American developmental psychologist. Her research focuses on adult ego development theory, particularly stages beyond the framework established by Jane Loevinger. Cook-Greuter created the Maturity Assessment Profile (MAP), formerly known as the Sentence Completion Test-Integral (SCTi), to measure these stages.[1][2]
Education and career
Cook-Greuter was born in Switzerland, where she earned a licentiate degree in English, Romance studies, and pedagogy from the University of Zurich in 1974. Later, she attended the Harvard Graduate School of Education, receiving a Master of Education in 1979 and a Doctor of Education in 1999.[1] Her doctoral dissertation described stages of ego development following Loevinger's autonomous stage.[1]
Beginning in the 1980s, Cook-Greuter scored sentence completion tests based on Loevinger's Washington University Sentence Completion Test (WUSCT). She founded Cook-Greuter and Associates, an assessment and consulting firm. Her model of adult development was incorporated by David Rooke and William R. Torbert into their research on corporate leadership, published in the Harvard Business Review in 2005.[3][4] In 2026, she co-authored a study in Frontiers in Psychology with Tamas Madl evaluating machine-learning models for scoring sentence-completion tests.[5]
Adult development research
Loevinger's original model measured ego development across eight progressive stages using sentence stems. Cook-Greuter proposed two additional stages beyond Loevinger's autonomous stage, which she classified as postautonomous. In the construct-aware stage, an individual recognizes that self-identity, thought patterns, and social conventions are shaped by language and culture.[6] In the unitive stage, the individual experiences a fluid sense of self and openness to transpersonal experience.[7]
Cook-Greuter's extensions of Loevinger's test have received both application and scrutiny in academic literature. Whereas Torbert and Rooke used her framework to analyze organizational leadership,[3] psychologist Angela Pfaffenberger noted in a 2011 State University of New York Press volume that empirical evidence supporting the construct validity of Cook-Greuter's extended postautonomous stages remains limited compared to the original WUSCT.[2]
Selected publications
- Miller, M. E., and Cook-Greuter, S. R. (Eds.). (1994). Transcendence and Mature Thought in Adulthood. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
- Cook-Greuter, S. R. (1999). Postautonomous Ego Development: A Study of Its Nature and Measurement. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University.
- Cook-Greuter, S. R. (2000). Mature ego development: A gateway to ego transcendence? Journal of Adult Development, 7(4), 227–240.
- Madl, T., and Cook-Greuter, S. R. (2026). Automated scoring of adult ego development from sentence completions: interpretable maturity indicators derived by evolutionary prompt optimization. Frontiers in Psychology, 17, 1853871.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Cook-Greuter, Susanne R. (1999). Postautonomous Ego Development: A Study of Its Nature and Measurement. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard Graduate School of Education. ProQuest 9933122.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Pfaffenberger, Angela H. (2011). "Assessing Postconventional Personality: How Valid and Reliable is the Sentence Completion Test?". In Pfaffenberger, Angela H.; Marko, Paul W.; Combs, Allan (eds.). The Postconventional Personality: Assessing, Researching, and Theorizing Higher Development. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. pp. 9–22. ISBN 978-1-4384-3465-0.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Rooke, David; Torbert, William R. (April 2005). "Seven Transformations of Leadership". Harvard Business Review. 83 (4): 66–76.
- ↑ Torbert, William R.; Associates (2004). Action Inquiry: The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers. pp. 63–85. ISBN 978-1-57675-264-7.
- ↑ Madl, Tamas; Cook-Greuter, Susanne R. (27 August 2026). "Automated scoring of adult ego development from sentence completions: interpretable maturity indicators derived by evolutionary prompt optimization". Frontiers in Psychology. 17: 1853871. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1853871.
- ↑ Mühlenbeck, C.; Jacobsen, T. (2026). "On the Relation Between Ego-Development and Life Focus in Adulthood". Journal of Constructivist Psychology. doi:10.1080/10720537.2026.2623972.
- ↑ Cook-Greuter, Susanne R. (2000). "Mature ego development: A gateway to ego transcendence?". Journal of Adult Development. 7 (4): 227–240. doi:10.1023/A:1009511411421.
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