John Baer is a professor of Educational Psychology at

Rider University Rider University is a private university in Lawrence Township, New Jersey, United States. It consists of three academic units: the Norm Brodsky College of Business, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, which includes Westminster Choir Coll ...

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

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

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

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

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

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'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

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

and Jonathan A. Plucker; 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

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, the

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, 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 ''

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

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External links

personal website at Rider
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