Roy Baumeister

Roy F. Baumeister
Baumeister at the 2011 ZURICH.MINDS
Born	(1953-05-16) May 16, 1953 (age 63) Cleveland, Ohio
Nationality	American
Fields	Social psychology, Evolutionary psychology
Institutions	University of Queensland Florida State University Case Western Reserve University (1979-2003)
Alma mater	Princeton University Duke University
Known for	Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength, Self studies.
Notable awards	1993-94 James McKeen Cattell Fund Sabbatical Fellowship Award, 2003 ISI highly cited researcher, 2004 Mensa Award for Excellence in Research, 2007 SPSP Distinguished Service Award, 2011 Jack Block Award, 2012 Distinguished Lifetime Career Contribution Award, 2013 William James Fellow Award

Roy F. Baumeister (born May 16, 1953) is a social psychologist who is known for his work on the self, social rejection, belongingness, sexuality and sex differences, self-control, self-esteem, self-defeating behaviors, motivation, aggression, consciousness, and free will.

Baumeister earned his A.B. from Princeton University and his M.A. from Duke University. He returned to Princeton University with his mentor Edward E. Jones and earned his Ph.D. from the university's Department of Psychology in 1978.

Baumeister then taught at Case Western Reserve University for over two decades. He later worked at Florida State University. In 2016 he moved to the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland in Australia.

He is a fellow of both the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and the Association for Psychological Science. Baumeister was named an ISI highly cited researcher in 2003 and 2014.

Baumeister has conducted research on the self, including various concepts related to how people perceive, act, and relate to their selves. Baumeister wrote a chapter titled, "The Self" in The Handbook of Social Psychology, and reviewed the research on the self-esteem in which he claimed that the importance of self-esteem is overrated.