David A. Kenny

David A. Kenny received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1972, where his advisor was Donald T. Campbell. After 6 years at Harvard University, he moved to the University of Connecticut, where he taught for 33 years. He also was a visiting professor at Arizona State University, University of Canterbury, and Oxford University. He is currently Emeritus Distinguished Board of Trustees and Alumni Professor at Connecticut. He has published six previous books and over 200 articles and chapters, many of which are highly cited. According to the journal Nature, his 1986 paper with Reuben Baron on mediation and moderation analysis was the 33rd most cited paper in science. He has won lifetime awards from International Association of Relationship Research, Society of Experimental Social Psychology, Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, and the American Psychological Association. The Society of Personality and Social Psychology has twice awarded him the Theoretical Innovation Award and once the Methodological Innovation Award. His web site has over 400,000 visitors a year.

For hobbies, he sings in a chorus and plays golf, both of which he does rather poorly.

He is the father of three children and has three grandchildren.