Arthur Jensen

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Arthur Jensen
Arthur Jensen, 2002 at ISIR
Born
Arthur Robert Jensen

(1923-08-24)August 24, 1923
San Diego, California, U.S.
DiedOctober 22, 2012(2012-10-22) (aged 89)
Kelseyville, California, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (BA)
San Diego State University (MA)
Columbia University (PhD)
Known forHeritability of IQ, race and intelligence, g factor
SpouseBarbara Jensen
AwardsKistler Prize (2003), ISIR Lifetime Achievement Award (2006)
Scientific career
FieldsEducational psychology, intelligence, cognition, behavior genetics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley, Editorial boards of Intelligence and Personality and Individual Differences
Thesis Aggression in Fantasy and Overt Behavior  (1956)
Doctoral advisorPercival Symonds

Arthur Robert Jensen (August 24, 1923 – October 22, 2012) was an American psychologist and writer. He was a professor of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.[1][2] Jensen was known for his work in psychometrics and differential psychology, the study of how and why individuals differ behaviorally from one another.

He was a major proponent of the hereditarian position in the nature and nurture debate, the position that genetics play a significant role in behavioral traits, such as intelligence and personality. He was the author of over 400 scientific papers published in refereed journals[3] and sat on the editorial boards of the scientific journals Intelligence and Personality and Individual Differences.[4]

Jensen was controversial,[5] largely for his conclusions regarding the causes of race-based differences in IQ.[6]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference obit was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Arthur Jensen" (PDF). Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 1, 2010. Retrieved June 5, 2010.
  3. ^ "Collected works". Arthurjensen.net. June 20, 2014. Retrieved August 30, 2015.
  4. ^ Intelligence[1] and Personality and Individual Differences[2] Archived 2002-10-28 at the Wayback Machine publisher's pages.
  5. ^ Feldman, Marcus W.; Ramachandran, Sohini (February 12, 2018). "Missing compared to what? Revisiting heritability, genes and culture". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 373 (1743): 20170064. doi:10.1098/rstb.2017.0064. PMC 5812976. PMID 29440529.
  6. ^ Panofsky, Aaron (2014). Misbehaving Science. Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-05831-3.