Arthur Jensen
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Arthur Jensen, 2002 at ISIR
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| Born | Arthur Robert Jensen August 24, 1923 San Diego, California |
| Died | October 22, 2012 (aged 89) Kelseyville, California |
| Residence | Orinda, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Educational psychology, Intelligence, Cognition, Behavior Genetics |
| Institutions | University of California Berkeley, Editorial boards of Intelligence and Personality and Individual Differences |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Thesis | (1956) |
| Doctoral advisor | Percival Symonds |
| Known for | Heritability of IQ, Race and intelligence, g factor |
| Influences | Charles Spearman, Hans Eysenck |
| Notable awards | Kistler Prize (2003), ISIR Lifetime Achievement Award (2006) |
| Spouse | Barbara Jensen |
Arthur Robert Jensen (August 24, 1923 – October 22, 2012) was a professor of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Jensen was known for his work in psychometrics and differential psychology, which is concerned with 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 and sat on the editorial boards of the scientific journals Intelligence and Personality and Individual Differences.
He was rated as one of the 50 most eminent psychologists of the 20th century. He was also a controversial figure, largely for his conclusions regarding the causes of race-based differences in intelligence.
Jensen was born August 24, 1923, in San Diego, California, the son of Linda Mary (née Schachtmayer) and Arthur Alfred Jensen, who operated and owned a lumber and building materials company. His paternal grandparents were Danish immigrants and his mother was of half Polish Jewish and half German descent. He studied at University of California, Berkeley (B.A. 1945), San Diego State College (M.A., 1952) and Columbia University (Ph.D., 1956), and did his doctoral thesis with Percival Symonds on the Thematic Apperception Test: He published this work. From 1956 through 1958, he did postdoctoral research at the University of London, Institute of Psychiatry with Hans Eysenck.
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