15 Facts About Roy Baumeister

Roy Baumeister returned to Princeton University with his mentor Edward E Jones and earned his Ph.

Roy Baumeister later worked at Florida State University as the Francis Eppes Eminent Scholar and head of the social psychology graduate program.

At FSU, Roy Baumeister worked in the psychology department, teaching classes and graduate seminars on social and evolutionary psychology.

Roy Baumeister is a fellow of both the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and the Association for Psychological Science.

Roy Baumeister was named an ISI highly cited researcher in 2003 and 2014.

Roy Baumeister is the most cited author of a series of psychology journals focusing on personality such as Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Personality, Personality and Social Psychology Review, Psychological Science in the Public Interest.

Roy Baumeister has conducted research on the self, focusing on various concepts related to how people perceive, act, and relate to their selves.

Roy Baumeister wrote a chapter titled, "The Self" in The Handbook of Social Psychology, and reviewed the research on self-esteem, concluding that the perceived importance of self-esteem is overrated.

Roy Baumeister wrote a paper on the need-to-belong theory with Mark Leary in 1995.

Later, Roy Baumeister published evidence that the way people look for belongingness differs between men and women.

Roy Baumeister coined the term "ego depletion" to describe the evidence that humans' ability to self-regulate is limited, and after using it there is less ability to self-regulate.

Roy Baumeister describes this research in a book, Willpower, authored with former New York Times journalist John Tierney.

Roy Baumeister has listed the major aspects that make up free will as self-control, rational, intelligent choice, planful behavior, and autonomous initiative.

Roy Baumeister proposes that "the defining thrust of human psychological evolution was selection in favor of cultural capability" and that these four psychological capabilities evolved to help humans function in the context of culture.

Roy Baumeister is married to Dianne Tice, a social psychologist with whom he has collaborated.