David Anthony Kenny (born November 10, 1946) is an American social psychologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the

University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university system with its main campus in Storrs, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School, named after two benefactors. In 1893, ...

in Storrs,

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. He is a member of the

American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, and other ...

. Among the subjects he has researched are the

interpersonal perception Interpersonal perception is an area of research in social psychology which examines the beliefs that interacting people have about each other. This area differs from social cognition and person perception by being interpersonal rather than intrape ...

, the statistical analysis of data from dyads and groups, as well as

mediation analysis In statistics, a mediation model seeks to identify and explain the mechanism or process that underlies an observed relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable via the inclusion of a third hypothetical variable, known as a ...

. 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). He received the

American Psychological Association The American Psychological Association (APA) is the main professional organization of psychologists in the United States, and the largest psychological association in the world. It has over 170,000 members, including scientists, educators, clin ...

's Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology in 2019.

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Personal website
* 1946 births Living people Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences American social psychologists University of Connecticut faculty University of California, Davis alumni Northwestern University alumni APA Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology recipients {{US-psychologist-stub