David A. Kenny


David Anthony Kenny is an American social psychologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut. He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2008. Among the subjects he has researched are 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 12,759 citations in the Science Citation Index as of December 28, 2009. In 2019, he received the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology.