John Baer is a Professor of Educational Psychology at

Rider University Rider University is a private university in Lawrence Township, New Jersey. It consists of four academic units: the Norm Brodsky College of Business, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the College of Education and Human Services, and West ...

in New Jersey. He earned his B.A. from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

(double major, psychology and Japanese Studies, magna cum laude) and his Ph.D. in cognitive and developmental psychology from

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

. His research on the development of creativity and his teaching have won national awards, including the

American Psychological Association The American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States, with over 133,000 members, including scientists, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students. It ha ...

's Berlyne PrizeDaniel E. Berlyne Award Listing of Past Recipients
http://www.div10.org/awards] and the National Conference on College Teaching and Learning’s Award for Innovative Excellence.Henshon, S. E. (2009). Highly inventive explorer of creativity: An interview with John Baer. ''Roeper Review, 31,'' 3-7. His primary research focus is the domain specificity of creativity, which argues that creativity is not a general set of skills but rather that creative-thinking skills vary by domain, making creativity in one domain not predictive of creativity in other domains.Baer, J. (2013). Domain specificity and the limits of creativity theory. ''Journal of Creative Behavior, 46'', 16-29.Baer, J (2010). Is creativity domain specific? In J. C. Kaufman & R. J. Sternberg (Eds.), ''Cambridge handbook of creativity'' (pp. 321-341). Cambridge University Press. He developed the Amusement Park Theory of creativity (with

James C. Kaufman James C. Kaufman is an American psychologist known for his research on creativity. He is a Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut. Previously, he taught at the California State University, Sa ...

)Baer, J., & Kaufman, J. C. (2005). Bridging generality and specificity: The Amusement Park Theoretical (APT) Model of creativity. ''Roeper Review, 27,'' 158-163. His books include ''There's No Such Thing as Creativity: How Plato and 20th Century Psychology Have Misled Us'' (Cambridge University Press, 2022), ''Domain Specificity of Creativity'' (Academic Press/Elsevier; 2016), ''Teaching for Creativity in the Common Core Classroom'' (with R. A. Beghetto &

; Teachers College Press, 2015), ''Being Creative Inside and Outside the Classroom'' (with

; Sense Publishers, 2003), ''Creativity and Divergent Thinking: A Task-Specific Approach'' (Erlbaum, 1993), ''Creative Teachers, Creative Students'' (Allyn and Bacon, 1997), ''Creativity Across Domains: Faces of the Muse'' (with

; Erlbaum, 2005), ''Reason and Creativity in Development'' (with

; Cambridge University Press, 2008); ''Are We Free? Psychology and Free Will'' (with

Roy Baumeister Roy F. Baumeister (; born May 16, 1953) is an American social psychologist who is known for his work on the self, social rejection, belongingness, sexuality and sex differences, self-control, self-esteem, self-defeating behaviors, motivation, a ...

; Oxford University Press, 2005), ''Essentials of Creativity Assessment'' (with

and

Jonathan A. Plucker Jonathan Plucker is the Julian C. Stanley Professor of Talent Development at Johns Hopkins University, where he works in the School of Education and the Center for Talented Youth. He previously served as Raymond Neag Endowed Professor of Education ...

; Wiley, 2008), and ''Creatively Gifted Students Are Not Like Other Gifted Students'' (with K. H. Kim,

, & B. Sriraman; Sense Publishers, 2013). He also collaborated with A. J. Lemaster in the development of the modern shorthand program SuperWrite. He is a Fellow of the

, and he has received research grants from the

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National I ...

, the

Educational Testing Service Educational Testing Service (ETS), founded in 1947, is the world's largest private nonprofit educational testing and assessment organization. It is headquartered in Lawrence Township, New Jersey, but has a Princeton address. ETS develops var ...

, the National Center for Educational Statistics, the Carnegie Foundation, and Yale, Rutgers, and Rider Universities. He serves on the editorial boards of the '' Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts''; the ''

Journal of Creative Behavior The ''Journal of Creative Behavior'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Creative Education Foundation. The journal was established in 1967. Its current editors are Ronald A. Beghetto (Arizo ...

''; and the ''International Journal of Creativity and Problem Solving''.

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External links

personal website at Rider
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