Jack Bauer, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and past Raymond A. Roesch, S.M., Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences at the University of Dayton. His courses and research focus on the development of self-identity and personality with an emphasis on life stories, meaning making, growth motivation, and humane flourishing.

His recent book, The Transformative Self: Personal Growth, Narrative Identity, and the Good Life (2021, Oxford University Press), explains how people create a meaningful self-identity in their life stories that helps cultivate personal growth in the directions of happiness, love and wisdom for the self and others. He is co-editor of the book Transcending Self-Interest: Psychological Explorations of the Quiet Ego (2008, American Psychological Association), which examines the problems of egotism and the ways and benefits of transcending it. He has served as co-editor of the Journal of Happiness Studies and associate editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.