John Baer

John Baer is Professor of Educational Psychology at Rider University, New Jersey. He is winner of the American Psychological Association's Berlyne Prize and the National Conference on College Teaching and Learning's Award for Innovative Excellence. His books include Domain Specificity of Creativity (2015), Being Creative Inside and Outside the Classroom (with James C. Kaufman, 2012), Creativity and Divergent Thinking: A Task-Specific Approach (1993), Creative Teachers, Creative Students (1996),...See more

John Baer is Professor of Educational Psychology at Rider University, New Jersey. He is winner of the American Psychological Association's Berlyne Prize and the National Conference on College Teaching and Learning's Award for Innovative Excellence. His books include Domain Specificity of Creativity (2015), Being Creative Inside and Outside the Classroom (with James C. Kaufman, 2012), Creativity and Divergent Thinking: A Task-Specific Approach (1993), Creative Teachers, Creative Students (1996), Creativity across Domains: Faces of the Muse (with James C. Kaufman, 2005), Creativity and Reason in Cognitive Development (with James C. Kaufman, Cambridge, 2016), Are We Free? Psychology and Free Will (with James C. Kaufman and Roy F. Baumeister, 2008), and Essentials of Creativity Assessment (with James C. Kaufman and Jonathan A. Plucker, 2008). See less