John D. Mayer is an American psychologist at the

University of New Hampshire The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Durham, New Hampshire. It was founded and incorporated in 1866 as a land grant college in Hanover in connection with Dartmouth College, m ...

, specializing in

emotional intelligence Emotional intelligence (EI) is most often defined as the ability to perceive, use, understand, manage, and handle emotions. People with high emotional intelligence can emotion recognition, recognize their own emotions and those of others, use em ...

and

personality psychology Personality psychology is a branch of psychology that examines personality and its variation among individuals. It aims to show how people are individually different due to psychological forces. Its areas of focus include: * construction of a c ...

. He co-developed a popular model of ''

'' with

Peter Salovey Peter Salovey (; born February 21, 1958) is an American social psychologist and current President of Yale University. He previously served as Yale's Provost, Dean of Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Dean of Yale College. Salovey i ...

. He is one of the authors of the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test ( MSCEIT), and has developed a new, integrated framework for personality psychology, known as the Systems Framework for Personality Psychology. He is the author of ''Personal Intelligence: The Power of Personality and How It Shapes Our Lives''. Mayer received a

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with majors in creative writing and literature and

drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has b ...

from the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

in 1975 and a

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psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries between ...

from Case Western Reserve University in 1982. He served as postdoctoral scholar in psychology at Stanford University from 1983 to 1985.

References

External links

* http://mayer.socialpsychology.org/
John Mayer's web site related to emotional intelligenceJohn Mayer's web site related to personality psychology
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mayer, John D. 21st-century American psychologists Emotional intelligence academics Living people Year of birth missing (living people) University of Michigan alumni Case Western Reserve University alumni University of New Hampshire faculty Personality psychologists