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Educational Differences

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462 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1973

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Arthur R. Jensen

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Arthur Robert 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. From 1956 through 1958, he did his postdoctoral research at the University of London, Institute of Psychiatry with Hans Eysenck.

Upon returning to the United States he became a researcher and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he focused on individual differences in learning, especially the influences of culture, development, and genetics on intelligence and learning. He received tenure at Berkeley in 1962. He has concentrated much of his work on the learning difficulties of students in culturally disadvantaged environments. In 2003 he was awarded the Kistler Prize for original contributions to the understanding of the connection between the human genome and human society. In 2006 the International Society for Intelligence Research awarded Jensen its Lifetime Achievement Award. During Jensen's period in San Diego he spent time working as a social worker with the San Diego Department of Public Welfare.

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