Robert Jeffrey Sternberg is an American psychologist and psychometric, and now he is the provost of Oklahoma State University. He is the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University, the IBM Professor of Psychology and Education at Yale University and the President of the American Psychological Association (2003). He is the editorial board of many academic journals, including American Psychologist. His scientific achievements have won many awards, including being a researcher at the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Science Foundation. He is a member of the American Academy of Science and Art, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Psychological Association. He is also a member and chairman of the American Psychological Association's Society of General Psychology and Educational Psychology.

He put forward the theory of intelligence triad, the theory of successful intelligence and the theory of love triangle. He and Todd Lubart jointly put forward the creative investment theory, which pointed out that in the creative world, creative people buy low and sell high.