Early Life and Educational Background
Mayer was born in 1953 in New York City to Edna and Arthur C. Mayer. His family then moved 27 miles north to Ardsley, NY, where he attended the Ardsley public school system. He went on to receive a B.A. at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with majors in both Creative Writing and Literature, and in Drama. He worked as a video scriptwriter for 2 years, researching the careers of managers and dramatizing their work lives under the supervision of J. Sterling Livingston, founder of the Sterling Institutein Washington, DC. In 1977, Mayer enrolled in the doctoral program in psychology at Case Western Reserve University where he studied psychological assessment with Professor Sandra J. Russ, completed his M.A. degree, and then worked in the intelligence laboratory of Douglas K. Detterman, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1982. After 2 years as a research associate and instructor at Case Western, he moved to the Department of Psychology at Stanford...
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Mayer, J. D. (2008). Personal intelligence. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 27, 209–232.
Mayer, J. D. (2014). Personal intelligence: The power of personality to shape our lives. New York: Scientific American/Farrar Straus & Giroux.
Mayer, J. D. (2015). The personality systems framework: Current theory and development. Journal of Research in Personality, 56, 4–14.
Mayer, J. D. (2016). The elements of mental tests (2nd ed.). New York: Momentum Press.
Mayer, J. D. (2017, forthcoming). Personality: A systems approach (2nd ed.). New York: Rowman & Littlefield.
Mayer, J. D., & Hanson, E. (1995). Mood-congruent judgment over time. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 21, 237–244.
Mayer, J. D., Salovey, P., Caruso, D. R., & Sitarenios, G. (2003). Measuring emotional intelligence with the MSCEIT V2.0. Emotion, 3, 97–105.
Mayer, J. D., Panter, A. T., & Caruso, D. R. (2012). Does personal intelligence exist? Evidence from a new ability-based measure. Journal of Personality Assessment, 94, 124–140.
Mayer, J. D., Salovey, P., & Caruso, D. R. (2016). The ability model of emotional intelligence: Principles and updates. Emotion Review, 8, 1–11. doi:10.1177/1 754073916639667.
Salovey, P., & Mayer, J. D. (1990). Emotional intelligence. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 9, 185–211.
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Mayer, J.D. (2016). Mayer, John D.. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_240-1
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