John Baer is a professor of Educational Psychology at Rider University in New Jersey.
[1] His research on the development of creativity and his teaching have won national awards, including the American Psychological Association's Berlyne Prize[2] and the National Conference on College Teaching and Learning's Award for Innovative Excellence.
Psychology and Free Will (with James C. Kaufman & Roy Baumeister; Oxford University Press, 2005), Essentials of Creativity Assessment (with James C. Kaufman and Jonathan A. Plucker; Wiley, 2008), and Creatively Gifted Students Are Not Like Other Gifted Students (with K. H. Kim, James C. Kaufman, & 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 American Psychological Association, and he has received research grants from the National Science Foundation, the Educational Testing Service, the National Center for Educational Statistics, the Carnegie Foundation, and Yale, Rutgers, and Rider Universities.