John D Mayer

Biographic Data

ID4009934
NAMEJohn D Mayer
GIVEN NAMESJohn D
FAMILY NAMEMayer
SIGNATUREMAYER J D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of New Hampshire
ORCID0000-0003-1644-707X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS41
TOTAL CITATIONS342
AUTHOR COUNT41
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX7

  • When people estimate their personal intelligence who is overconfident? Who is accurate

    Open AccessJohn D Mayer, A T Panter et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality2020

    OBJECTIVE: We explore accurate self-knowledge versus overconfidence in personal intelligence-a "broad" intelligence about personality. The theory of personal intelligence proposes that people vary in their ability to understand the traits, goals, plans, and actions of themselves and others. We wondered who accurately knew that they were higher in personal intelligence and who did not, and whether individuals with more accurate estimates were dist…

  • How would you describe Grandpa?’ Mothers’ personal intelligence predicts personality talk with their children

    Open AccessErin M Kenney, Michelle D Leichtman et al.ARTICLESocial Development2020References: 9

    Mother–child conversations reflect and support many important skills—including, perhaps, children's understanding of personality. Children acquire an understanding of people's personalities during the preschool and early elementary years. This study of 4‐ to 9‐year‐old children and their mothers ( N pairs = 135) investigated the relation between mothers’ ability to reason about the personalities of self and others—termed personal intelligence—and…

  • Personality attributes that predict cadet performance at West Point

    Open AccessJohn D Mayer, William SkimmyhornARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2017References: 40

  • The Ability Model of Emotional Intelligence: Principles and Updates

    Open AccessJohn D Mayer, David R Caruso et al.ARTICLEEmotion Review2016

    This article presents seven principles that have guided our thinking about emotional intelligence, some of them new. We have reformulated our original ability model here guided by these principles, clarified earlier statements of the model that were unclear, and revised portions of it in response to current research. In this revision, we also positioned emotional intelligence amidst other hot intelligences including personal and social intelligen…

  • Personal Intelligence and Competencies

    Open AccessJohn D Mayer, David R Caruso et al.CHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • The personality systems framework: Current theory and development

    Open AccessJohn D MayerARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2015Cited by: 2References: 88

  • Resilience and Recovery in American Sāmoa: A Case Study of the 2009 South Pacific Tsunami

    Open AccessSherri Brokopp Binder, Charlene K Baker et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Psychology2014Cited by: 2References: 41

    Case study methodology was used to explore the culturally situated response and recovery efforts following a tsunami in American Sāmoa. Data indicated that cultural mechanisms were effective in meeting physical needs but insufficient to manage the emotional trauma caused by such a large‐scale event. Samoan cultural norms strongly discourage uncontrolled emotional expression outside of ritualized grieving events. Disruptions in social networks and…

  • Saddam Hussein is “dangerous to the extreme”: The ethics of professional commentary on public figures

    John D Mayer, Michelle D LeichtmanARTICLEPsychology of Popular Media Culture2012References: 10

    People are intrinsically interested in the personalities of public figures such as the celebrities they follow, political leaders, and citizens at the center of newsworthy events. The goal of the present article is to examine the key issues that surround ethical commentary on public figures by psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals. Public commentaries carry with them a host of issues from representing a given discipl…

  • Personality, personal expression, and the situation

    Open AccessJohn D MayerARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2009References: 1

  • Resonance to archetypes in media: There’s some accounting for taste

    Open AccessMichael A Faber, John D MayerARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2009Cited by: 1References: 49

  • Emotional intelligence: New ability or eclectic traits

    John D Mayer, Peter Salovey et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist2008Cited by: 51References: 8

    Some individuals have a greater capacity than others to carry out sophisticated information processing about emotions and emotion-relevant stimuli and to use this information as a guide to thinking and behavior. The authors have termed this set of abilities emotional intelligence (EI). Since the introduction of the concept, however, a schism has developed in which some researchers focus on EI as a distinct group of mental abilities, and other res…

  • Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Creativity

    Open AccessZorana Ivcevic, Marc A Brackett et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality2007

    Three studies examined the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and emotional creativity (EC) and whether each construct was predictive of creative behavior. It was hypothesized that the relationship between EI and EC corresponds to the relationship between cognitive intelligence and creative ability. Therefore, EI and EC were expected to be two distinct sets of abilities. Intercorrelations and confirmatory factor analyses supported t…

  • Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Creativity

    Open AccessZorana Ivcevic, Marc A Brackett et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality2007

  • Human Abilities: Emotional Intelligence

    John D Mayer, Richard D Roberts et al.ARTICLEAnnual Review of Psychology2007Cited by: 103References: 5

    Emotional intelligence (EI) involves the ability to carry out accurate reasoning about emotions and the ability to use emotions and emotional knowledge to enhance thought. We discuss the origins of the EI concept, define EI, and describe the scope of the field today. We review three approaches taken to date from both a theoretical and methodological perspective. We find that Specific-Ability and Integrative-Model approaches adequately conceptuali…

  • A new vision of personality…and of personality theory: Reply

    John D MayerARTICLEAmerican Psychologist2006

  • A Discrepancy in Analyses of the MSCEIT--Resolving the Mystery and Understanding Its Implications: A Reply to Gignac (2005)

    John D Mayer, A T Panter et al.ARTICLEEmotion2005

    Replies to comments made by G. E. Gignac on the current authors' original article . Gignac reanalyzed the factor structure of the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT) and found results that differed from those the authors obtained initially. The authors tracked down the surprising sources of those discrepancies. G. E. Gignac's hierarchical model of emotional intelligence appears promising, and the authors anticipate that furt…

  • A Tale of Two Visions: Can a New View of Personality Help Integrate Psychology

    John D MayerARTICLEAmerican Psychologist2005Cited by: 7References: 11

    Personality psychology studies how psychological systems work together. Consequently, the field can act as a unifying resource for the broader discipline of psychology. Yet personality's current fieldwide organization promotes a fragmented view of the person, seen through such competing theories as the psychodynamic, trait, and humanistic. There exists an alternative--a systems framework for personality--that focuses on 4 topics: identifying pers…

  • Target Articles: "Emotional Intelligence: Theory, Findings, and Implications"

    John D Mayer, Peter Salovey et al.ARTICLEPsychological Inquiry2004

    (2004). TARGET ARTICLES: 'Emotional Intelligence: Theory, Findings, and Implications' Psychological Inquiry: Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 197-215.

  • Emotional intelligence and its relation to everyday behaviour

    Open AccessMarc A Brackett, John D Mayer et al.ARTICLEPersonality and Individual…2004

  • Convergent, Discriminant, and Incremental Validity of Competing Measures of Emotional Intelligence

    Open AccessMarc A Brackett, John D MayerARTICLEPersonality and Social Psychology…2003

    This study investigated the convergent, discriminant, and incremental validity of one ability test of emotional intelligence (EI)—the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso-Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT)—and two self-report measures of EI—the Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i) and the self-report EI test (SREIT). The MSCEIT showed minimal relations to the EQ-i and SREIT, whereas the latter two measures were moderately interrelated. Among EI measures, the MS…

  • Measuring emotional intelligence with the MSCEIT V2.0

    John D Mayer, Peter Salovey et al.ARTICLEEmotion2003

    Does a recently introduced ability scale adequately measure emotional intelligence (EI) skills? Using the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT; J. D. Mayer, P. Salovey, & D. R. Caruso, 2002b), the authors examined (a) whether members of a general standardization sample and emotions experts identified the same test answers as correct, (b) the test's reliability, and (c) the possible factor structures of EI. Twenty-one emotions …

  • Emotional intelligence as a standard intelligence

    John D Mayer, Peter Salovey et al.ARTICLEEmotion2001

    The authors have claimed that emotional intelligence (EI) meets traditional standards for an intelligence (J. D. Mayer, D. R. Caruso, & P. Salovey, 1999). R. D. Roberts, M. Zeidner, and G. Matthews (2001) questioned whether that claim was warranted. The central issue raised by Roberts et al. concerning Mayer et al. (1999) is whether there are correct answers to questions on tests purporting to measure EI as a set of abilities. To address this iss…

  • Primary Divisions of Personality and their Scientific Contributions: From the Trilogy‐of‐Mind to the Systems Set

    Open AccessJohn D MayerARTICLEJournal for the Theory of Social…2001Cited by: 1

    Personality theories often identify sets of primary parts. These are sets of a few personality parts expansive enough to collectively describe the total personality. Examples of such sets include the trilogy of mind (motivation, emotion, and cognition), Freud’s structural set (id, ego, superego), and the recently‐introduced systems set (energy lattice, knowledge works, role player, and executive con‐sciousness). These groups may be of unrecognize…

  • Models of Emotional Intelligence

    Open AccessJohn D Mayer, Peter Salovey et al.CHAPTERHandbook of Intelligence2000

    COMPETING MODELS OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE Studies of emotional intelligence initially appeared in academic articles beginning in the early 1990s. By middecade, the concept had attracted considerable popular attention, and powerful claims were made concerning its importance for predicting success. Emotional intelligence is the set of abilities that accounts for how people's emotional reports vary in their accuracy and how the more accurate unders…

  • Spiritual Intelligence or Spiritual Consciousness

    John D MayerARTICLEInternational Journal for the…2000Cited by: 6References: 4

    (2000). Spiritual Intelligence or Spiritual Consciousness? The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 47-56