John D. Mayer

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John D. Mayer (2011)

John D. Mayer (born December 6, 1953 ) is an American psychologist. He owes his fame to his research in the field of emotional intelligence . Mayer developed this concept together with Peter Salovey in the 1990s.

Life

After studying at the University of Michigan , Mayer received his PhD from Case Western Reserve University and then worked as a post-doctoral student at Stanford University . In a report published in 1990 essay ( Perceiving affective content in ambiguous visual stimuli ), he pointed first at how emotional intelligence operationalized and can be measured, and put it in the same year a first formal theory of emotional intelligence ( Emotional Intelligence ). Among his outstanding achievements is the co-development of the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT), a scientific set of instruments with which emotional intelligence can be measured in a similar way to linguistic, mathematical and logical intelligence . Mayer's insights were popularized a little later through Daniel Goleman's book EQ. Emotional intelligence .

Another research area in which Mayer works is systemic personality psychology . Here he has u. a. attracted attention by the proposal to target destructive political figures such as B. Adolf Hitler to introduce a special psychiatric category: a Dangerous Leader Disorder . Mayer teaches and works at the University of New Hampshire .

Publications (selection)

Emotional intelligence

  • with Maria DiPaolo and Peter Salovey: Perceiving affective content in ambiguous visual stimuli: A component of emotional intelligence. In: Journal of Personality Assessment. Vol. 54, 1990, pp. 772-781.
  • with Peter Salovey: Emotional intelligence (PDF; 350 kB). In: Imagination, Cognition, and Personality. Volume 9, 1990, pp. 185-211.
  • with Peter Salovey: The intelligence of emotional intelligence. In: Intelligence. Volume 17, Issue 4, 1993, pp. 433-442.
  • with Peter Salovey: Emotional intelligence and the construction and regulation of feelings. In: Applied and Preventive Psychology. Volume 4, 1995, pp. 197-208.
  • with Peter Salovey, Susan L. Goldman, Carolyn Turvay and Tibor P. Palfai: Emotional attention, clarity, and repair: Exploring emotional intelligence using the Trait Meta-Mood Scale. In: JW Pennebaker (Ed.): Emotion, disclosure, and health. American Psychological Association, Washington, DC 1995, pp. 125-154.
  • with Peter Salovey: What is emotional intelligence? In: Peter Salovey, D. Sluyter (Eds.): Emotional Development and Emotional Intelligence: Implications for Educators. Basic Books, New York 1997, pp. 3-31.
  • Emotional Intelligence: Popular or scientific psychology? In: APA Monitor. Volume 30, 50, September 1999.
  • with Casey D. Cobb: Emotional intelligence: What the research says. In: Educational Leadership. Volume 58, 2000, pp. 14-18.
  • with David R. Caruso : The Effective Leader: Understanding and applying emotional intelligence. In: Ivey Business Journal. Volume 67, 2002, pp. 1-6.
  • Be realistic. In: Harvard Business Review. Volume 82, 2004, p. 28.

Personality psychology

  • The emotional madness of the dangerous leader. In: Journal of Psychohistory. Volume 20, 1993, pp. 331-348.
  • Personality: A Systems Approach. Allyn & Bacon, 2006, ISBN 0-205-38914-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John D. Mayer, Peter Salovey, David R. Caruso: The Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT). Toronto, Ontario: Multi-Health Systems, 2002; The Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT)
  2. ↑ For details see the article Adolf Hitler's Psychopathography .
personal data
SURNAME Mayer, John D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American personality psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1953