David A. Kenny

David Anthony Kenny (born November 10, 1946) is an American social psychologist and applied statistician. He is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut. Among the subjects he has researched are the interpersonal perception, the statistical analysis of data from dyads and groups, as well as mediation analysis. He co-authored a 1986 paper with Reuben M. Baron on mediation analysis that has been highly influential in the years since, with 114,891 citations (Google Scholar, September 2022).

Education and career Kenny received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1968 from the University of California, Davis, where his undergraduate mentor was the environmental psychologist Robert Sommer. He subsequently enrolled in the graduate program at Northwestern University, completing his Doctor of Philosophy in social psychology in 1972 under the supervision of Donald T. Campbell. He was awarded the Donald T. Campbell Award from the Society of Personality and Social Psychology in 2006. He received the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology from the American Psychological Association in 2019.

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