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John Baer is affiliated with Rider University in the United States and focuses primarily on the fields of psychology and medicine. Their research work spans several subfields, including applied psychology, epidemiology, general health professions, public health, environmental and occupational health, and endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism.

Their main topics of study involve digital mental health interventions, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, telemedicine and telehealth implementation, mental health and patient involvement, diabetes management and education, sleep and related disorders, and adolescent sexual and reproductive health.

Baer has contributed to several recent papers published in respected journals. These publications include:

  • Virtual Standardized Patients vs Academic Training for Learning Motivational Interviewing Skills in the US Department of Veterans Affairs and the US Military, 2020, JAMA Network Open
  • Usability and Acceptability of a Mobile App for the Self-Management of Alcohol Misuse Among Veterans (Step Away): Pilot Cohort Study, 2021, JMIR mhealth and uhealth
  • U.S. veterans' experiences and factors associated with use of a smartphone application to self-manage unhealthy alcohol use, 2022, Psychological Services
  • A randomized clinical trial evaluating the impact of counselor training and patient feedback on substance use disorder patients' sexual risk behavior, 2022, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment

Frequent coauthors in Baer's research include Carol A. Malte, Patrick Dulin, John C. Fortney, Anissa N. Danner, and Aline Lott. Their publications appear in venues such as:

  • JAMA Network Open
  • JMIR mhealth and uhealth
  • Psychological Services
  • Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment

Best Publications

  • Screening and brief intervention for high-risk college student drinkers: results from a 2-year follow-up assessment.

    G. Alan Marlatt;John S. Baer;Daniel R. Kivlahan;Linda A. Dimeff

  • Biases in the perception of drinking norms among college students.

    John S. Baer;Alan Stacy;Mary Larimer

  • Gender Differences in Creativity

    John Baer;James C. Kaufman

  • Addictive Behaviors: Etiology and Treatment

    G A Marlatt;J S Baer;D M Donovan;D R Kivlahan

  • Essentials of Creativity Assessment

    James C. Kaufman;Jonathan A. Plucker;John Baer

  • Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (Basics): A Harm Reduction Approach

    Daniel R. Kivlahan;Linda A. Dimeff;John S. Baer;G. Alan Marlatt

  • Creativity and Divergent Thinking: A Task-Specific Approach

    John Baer

  • The case for domain specificity of creativity.

    John Baer

  • Student factors: understanding individual variation in college drinking.

    John S Baer

  • Brief intervention for heavy-drinking college students: 4-year follow-up and natural history.

    John S. Baer;Daniel R. Kivlahan;Arthur W. Blume;Patrick McKnight

  • Social support and smoking cessation and maintenance.

    Robin J. Mermelstein;Sheldon Cohen;Edward Lichtenstein;John S. Baer

  • Screening and brief intervention for high-risk college student drinkers: Results from a 2-year follow-up assessment.

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  • Bridging Generality and Specificity: The Amusement Park Theoretical (APT) Model of Creativity

    John Baer;James C. Kaufman

  • Test-retest reliability of alcohol measures: is there a difference between internet-based assessment and traditional methods?

    Elizabeth T. Miller;Derrick J. Neal;Lisa J. Roberts;John S. Baer

  • A Comparison of Expert and Nonexpert Raters Using the Consensual Assessment Technique

    James C. Kaufman;John Baer;Jason C. Cole;Janel D. Sexton

  • An experimental test of three methods of alcohol risk reduction with young adults.

    J. S. Baer;G. A. Marlatt;Daniel R. Kivlahan;Kim Fromme

  • Beyond New and Appropriate: Who Decides What Is Creative?

    James C. Kaufman;John Baer

  • Extension of the Consensual Assessment Technique to Nonparallel Creative Products

    John Baer;James C. Kaufman;Claudia A. Gentile

  • Self-efficacy and smoking reexamined: construct validity and clinical utility.

    John S. Baer;Craig S. Holt;Edward Lichtenstein

  • High‐Risk Drinking across the Transition from High School to College

    J. S. Baer;Daniel R. Kivlahan;G. A. Marlatt

  • Advancing Creativity Theory and Research: A Socio‐cultural Manifesto

    Vlad Petre Glaveanu;Michael Hanchett Hanson;John Baer;Baptiste Barbot

  • Sure, I'm Creative—But Not in Mathematics!: Self-Reported Creativity in Diverse Domains

    James C. Kaufman;John Baer

  • Creativity Across Domains : Faces of the Muse

    James C. Kaufman;John Baer

  • Effects of college residence on perceived norms for alcohol consumption: An examination of the first year in college.

    John S. Baer

  • Assessing Creativity Using the Consensual Assessment Technique

    John Baer;James C. Kaufman

  • An evaluation of workshop training in motivational interviewing for addiction and mental health clinicians.

    John S Baer;David B Rosengren;Christopher W Dunn;Elizabeth A Wells

  • Domain Specificity and the Limits of Creativity Theory

    John Baer

  • Divergent thinking is not a general trait: A multidomain training experiment

    John Baer

  • The Effects of Task-Specific Divergent-Thinking Training

    John Baer

  • Classification and prediction of smoking relapse episodes: an exploration of individual differences.

    John S. Baer;Edward Lichtenstein

  • The Construct of Creativity: Structural Model for Self‐Reported Creativity Ratings

    James C. Kaufman;Jason C. Cole;John Baer

  • Captions, consistency, creativity, and the consensual assessment technique: New evidence of reliability.

    James C. Kaufman;Joohyun Lee;John Baer;Soonmook Lee

  • Expertise, Domains, and the Consensual Assessment Technique.

    James C. Kaufman;John Baer;Jason C. Cole

  • Self-efficacy and addictive behavior

    G. Alan Marlatt;John S. Baer;Lori A. Quigley

  • Furious activity vs. understanding: How much expertise is needed to evaluate creative work?

    James C. Kaufman;John Baer;David H. Cropley;Roni Reiter-Palmon

  • Generality of creativity across performance domains

    John Baer

  • Effectiveness of workshop training for psychosocial addiction treatments: a systematic review.

    Scott T. Walters;Sarah A. Matson;John S. Baer;John S. Baer;Douglas M. Ziedonis

  • Harm reduction for alcohol problems: Moving beyond the controlled drinking controversy *

    G. Alan Marlatt;Mary E. Larimer;John S. Baer;Lori A. Quigley

  • The problem of college drinking: insights from a developmental perspective.

    John Schulenberg;Jennifer L. Maggs;Stephen W. Long;Kenneth J. Sher

  • Short-term effects of a brief motivational intervention to reduce alcohol and drug risk among homeless adolescents.

    Peggy L. Peterson;John S. Baer;Elizabeth A. Wells;Joshua A. Ginzler

Frequent Co-Authors

James C. Kaufman
James C. Kaufman University of Connecticut
Jonathan A. Plucker
Jonathan A. Plucker Johns Hopkins University
Roy F. Baumeister
Roy F. Baumeister University of Queensland
Dean Keith Simonton
Dean Keith Simonton University of California, Davis
Roni Reiter-Palmon
Roni Reiter-Palmon University of Nebraska at Omaha
Giovanni Emanuele Corazza
Giovanni Emanuele Corazza University of Bologna
Baptiste Barbot
Baptiste Barbot Université Catholique de Louvain
Todd Lubart
Todd Lubart Université Paris Cité
Robert J. Sternberg
Robert J. Sternberg Cornell University
Ronald A. Beghetto
Ronald A. Beghetto Arizona State University

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