Mayer is an American psychologist at the University of New Hampshire.
He is a personality psychologist.
He co-developed a popular model of emotional intelligence with Peter Salovey.
He is one of the authors of the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT), and has developed a new, integrated framework for personality psychology, known as the Systems Framework for Personality Psychology.
He is the author of Personal Intelligence: The Power of Personality and How It Shapes Our Lives.
Mayer received his B.A.