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According to Wikipedia, 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 is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among the subjects he has researched are the interpersonal perception, 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 114,891 citations . He received the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology in 2019.

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The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations. (1986) (81885)
Data analysis in social psychology. (1998) (3166)
Correlation and Causation. (1981) (2864)
Dyadic Data Analysis (2006) (2007)
Process Analysis (1981) (1770)
The Actor–Partner Interdependence Model: A model of bidirectional effects in developmental studies (2005) (1524)
The Performance of RMSEA in Models With Small Degrees of Freedom (2015) (1433)
Interpersonal Perception: A Social Relations Analysis (1988) (1361)
Correlation and causality (1979) (1112)
Effect of the Number of Variables on Measures of Fit in Structural Equation Modeling (2003) (1031)
Estimating the nonlinear and interactive effects of latent variables. (1984) (941)
Treating stimuli as a random factor in social psychology: a new and comprehensive solution to a pervasive but largely ignored problem. (2012) (906)
Models of Non-Independence in Dyadic Research (1996) (872)
Estimating and testing mediation and moderation in within-subject designs. (2001) (798)
Cross-lagged panel correlation: A test for spuriousness. (1975) (699)
Partner effects in relationship research: Conceptual issues, analytic difficulties, and illustrations (1999) (637)
Lower level mediation in multilevel models. (2003) (632)
Consequences of violating the independence assumption in analysis of variance. (1986) (613)
Separating individual and group effects (1985) (589)
Analysis of the multitrait^multimethod matrix by confirmatory factor analysis (1992) (557)
The Social Relations Model (1984) (543)
Estimating the effects of social interventions (1981) (524)
Effects of Racial Diversity on Complex Thinking in College Students (2004) (497)
Consensus in personality judgments at zero acquaintance. (1988) (484)
Do people know how others view them? An empirical and theoretical account. (1993) (479)
The statistical analysis of data from small groups. (2002) (472)
Statistical power and optimal design in experiments in which samples of participants respond to samples of stimuli. (2014) (447)
Self-monitoring and trait-based variance in leadership: An investigation of leader flexibility across multiple group situations. (1991) (436)
Assessing Mediation in Dyadic Data Using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (2011) (431)
A Primer on Regression Artifacts (1999) (431)
Detecting, measuring, and testing dyadic patterns in the actor-partner interdependence model. (2010) (393)
Power Anomalies in Testing Mediation (2014) (379)
Accuracy in interpersonal perception: a social relations analysis. (1987) (363)
Self-concept of ability and perceived evaluation of others: cause or effect of academic achievement? (1977) (358)
Statistics for the social and behavioral sciences (1987) (343)
A general model of consensus and accuracy in interpersonal perception. (1991) (330)
Structural equation modeling with interchangeable dyads. (2006) (304)
An estimate of variance due to traits in leadership. (1983) (285)
A New Round Robin Analysis of Variance for Social Interaction Data (1979) (279)
Consensus in interpersonal perception: acquaintance and the big five. (1994) (272)
Reconceptualizing individual differences in self-enhancement bias: an interpersonal approach. (2004) (271)
Accuracy and bias in the perception of the partner in a close relationship. (2001) (261)
Experiments with More Than One Random Factor: Designs, Analytic Models, and Statistical Power (2017) (260)
The effect of nonindependence on significance testing in dyadic research. (1995) (260)
Reflections on Mediation (2008) (258)
The truth and bias model of judgment. (2011) (256)
A quasi-experimental approach to assessing treatment effects in the nonequivalent control group design. (1975) (252)
The trait-state-error model for multiwave data. (1995) (247)
Consensus at zero acquaintance: replication, behavioral cues, and stability. (1992) (243)
PERSON: A General Model of Interpersonal Perception (2004) (230)
The social relations model for family data: A multilevel approach (1999) (227)
Structural models for the mediation of salience effects on attribution (1982) (215)
Accuracy and bias in the perception of the partner in a close relationship (2001) (211)
Trait–state models for longitudinal data. (2001) (190)
Emotional Closeness as a Mediator of the Effect of Genetic Relatedness on Altruism (2001) (188)
Data Analysis in Social Psychology: Recent and Recurring Issues (2010) (170)
The importance of similarity and understanding of partners' marital ideals to relationship satisfaction (2001) (160)
The common fate model for dyadic data: variations of a theoretically important but underutilized model. (2012) (160)
An empirical application of confirmatory factor analysis to the multitrait-multimethod matrix (1976) (157)
Decisional Conflict in Patients and Their Physicians: A Dyadic Approach to Shared Decision Making (2009) (157)
Moderation in the actor-partner interdependence model (2015) (156)
Accuracy of person perception: do people know what kinds of impressions they convey? (1987) (156)
Accuracy of Behavioral Predictions at Zero Acquaintance: A Social Relations Analysis (1993) (155)
A social relations variance partitioning of dyadic behavior. (2001) (154)
The organisation of Luo conceptions of intelligence: A study of implicit theories in a Kenyan village (2001) (152)
Cross-lagged panel correlation: Practice and promise. (1979) (151)
Mediation with Dichotomous Outcomes (2013) (151)
Interpersonal perception in the context of doctor-patient relationships: a dyadic analysis of doctor-patient communication. (2010) (145)
The analysis of data from two-person relationships. (1988) (142)
The social relations model: an integrative method for personality research (1986) (134)
Does Intelligence Cause Achievement?: A Cross-Lagged Panel Analysis (1972) (128)
Cross-cultural consensus in personality judgments. (1997) (124)
Analyzing Dyadic Data With Multilevel Modeling Versus Structural Equation Modeling: A Tale of Two Methods (2017) (123)
The Social Relations Model: How to Understand Dyadic Processes (2010) (118)
Correlational bias in observer ratings. (1976) (113)
A general procedure for the estimation of interdependence. (1996) (113)
The design and analysis of social-interaction research. (1996) (112)
Using Trait-State Models to Evaluate the Longitudinal Consistency of Global Self-Esteem From Adolescence to Adulthood. (2012) (110)
Similarity and Agreement in Self-and Other Perception: A Meta-Analysis (2010) (107)
Parental affective style risk and the family system: a social relations model analysis. (1991) (101)
Cross-Lagged Panel Design† (2005) (99)
Giving dyadic data analysis away: A user‐friendly app for actor–partner interdependence models (2018) (96)
Replicating Studies in Which Samples of Participants Respond to Samples of Stimuli (2015) (96)
Splitting the reciprocity correlation. (1980) (96)
Dyadic data analysis using multilevel modeling. (2010) (95)
HIV Transmission Risk among HIV Seroconcordant and Serodiscordant Couples: Dyadic Processes of Partner Selection (2009) (95)
Reciprocity of self-disclosure at the individual and dyadic levels: A social relations analysis. (1986) (94)
A Guide for the Estimation of Gender and Sexual Orientation Effects in Dyadic Data: An Actor-Partner Interdependence Model Approach (2008) (94)
Interpersonal perception and metaperception in nonoverlapping social groups. (1997) (87)
Application of the social relations model to family assessment. (2004) (85)
Self‐Disclosure in Spouse and Stranger Interaction A Social Relations Analysis (1997) (85)
Relative contributions of expressive behavior and contextual information to the judgment of the emotional state of another. (1990) (84)
Helping homeless mentally Ill people: What variables mediate and moderate program effects? (1994) (83)
"Getting by (or getting high) with a little help from my friends": an examination of adult alcoholics' friendships. (2001) (81)
An evolutionary and close-relationship model of helping (2006) (80)
Measuring similarity in couples. (1994) (79)
Enhanced co-orientation in the perception of friends: a social relations analysis. (1994) (79)
The unappreciated heterogeneity of effect sizes: Implications for power, precision, planning of research, and replication. (2019) (78)
On the measurement of stability in over-time data. (1989) (77)
Componential Analysis of Interpersonal Perception Data (2006) (77)
Statistical approaches to the correction of correlational bias (1980) (77)
Translating shared decision-making into health care clinical practices: Proof of concepts (2008) (76)
Experimental analysis of dominance in haptic collaboration (2009) (73)
Accuracy in Judgments of Aggressiveness (2007) (73)
Effects of self-consciousness and social anxiety on self-disclosure among unacquainted individuals: an application of the social relations model. (1992) (70)
SPSS programs for the measurement of nonindependence in standard dyadic designs (2009) (70)
Levels of Analysis and Effects: Clarifying Group Influence and Climate by Separating Individual and Group Effects (1990) (70)
Analysis of Family Research Designs (1990) (65)
The measurement of interpersonal sensitivity: Consideration of design, components, and unit of analysis. (2001) (65)
Power estimation in social relations analyses (1998) (65)
When Bias and Insecurity Promote Accuracy (2012) (64)
Judging the positions of political candidates: Models of assimilation and contrast. (1983) (63)
A social relations analysis of leadership (2008) (62)
The Combined Effects of Measurement Error and Omitting Confounders in the Single-Mediator Model (2016) (61)
Reciprocity of interpersonal attraction: A confirmed hypothesis. (1982) (56)
Using the Actor–Partner Interdependence Model to Study the Effects of Group Composition (2012) (55)
Cross-Sex Friends Who were Once Romantic Partners: Are they Platonic Friends Now? (2000) (54)
Couples' relationship affects mothers' and fathers' anxiety and depression trajectories over the transition to parenthood. (2018) (53)
Partner effects in social interaction (1988) (53)
The Female Positivity Effect in the Perception of Others (1998) (51)
A general and flexible approach to estimating the social relations model using Bayesian methods. (2013) (50)
The examination of myofascial face pain and its relationship to psychological distress among women. (1995) (49)
Do we know how much people like one another? (1996) (48)
A componential analysis of leadership using the social relations model (2009) (47)
The measurement of reliability of social relations components from round-robin designs (2010) (44)
Metaperception Accuracy: An Israeli Study (1994) (43)
Dyadic Models for the Study of Health (2013) (43)
Handbook of Research Methods in Social and Personality Psychology: The Design and Analysis of Data from Dyads and Groups (2014) (42)
Measuring similarity in couples (1994) (41)
Examining the validity of self-report assessments of family functioning: a question of the level of analysis. (2006) (40)
Epistemic motivation and perpetuation of group culture: Effects of need for cognitive closure on trans-generational norm transmission (2015) (39)
A model for triadic relations. (1997) (39)
Reflections on the actor–partner interdependence model (2018) (36)
A social relations analysis of nonverbal communication accuracy in married couples (1986) (35)
The effects of perceived and actual similarity in values and personality in the process of interpersonal attraction (1974) (35)
Do You Know Whom You Were with a Week Ago Friday? A Re-Analysis of the Bernard, Killworth, and Sailer Studies (1990) (35)
A toolbox with programs to restructure and describe dyadic data (2015) (33)
Evaluation of Treatment Programs for Persons with Severe Mental Illness (2004) (31)
Commentary: Dyadic analyses of family data. (2011) (31)
Zero acquaintance: Definitions, statistical model, findings, and process (2007) (30)
15. Meta-accuracy: do we know how others see us? (2012) (28)
Multiple Perspectives on Family Differentiation: Analyses by Multitrait Multimethod Matrix and Triadic Social Relations Models (1999) (28)
Processing inconsistent social information. (1983) (27)
The how and why of disagreement among perceivers: An exploration of person models (2006) (27)
Expert judgments of hypnosis from subjective state reports. (1992) (25)
Matchmaker, matchmaker, can you make me a match? Predicting liking between two unacquainted persons. (1994) (24)
Circumscribed Accuracy among Well-Acquainted Individuals (1996) (23)
The Effects of Group Composition on Gifted and Non-Gifted Elementary Students in Cooperative Learning Groups. (1995) (22)
Self-perception as interpersonal perception. (2008) (21)
Multiple levels of analysis in psychotherapy research (2009) (21)
LEVEL: A FORTRAN IV program for correlational analysis of group-individual data structures (1983) (20)
The triangle of interpersonal models. (2002) (20)
Analyzing the effects of group members’ characteristics: A guide to the group actor–partner interdependence model (2015) (20)
The Developmental Course of Marital Dysfunction: Couples, Gender, and Time: Comments on Method (1998) (18)
Rotation designs in leadership research (1992) (18)
Modeling the Interdependence Among Family Members (2004) (17)
A Reexamination of Selection and Growth Processes in the Nonequivalent Control Group Design (1980) (17)
A Coming‐of‐Age for Research on Interpersonal Perception (1993) (17)
The Role of the Relationship in Marital Decision Making (1989) (17)
Enhancing validity in psychological research. (2019) (17)
Power Considerations for the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (2015) (16)
Estimating chance reproducibility in Guttman Scaling (1977) (16)
Correlation and causality / David A. Kenny (1979) (15)
Do we know how much people like one another (1996) (14)
The Multitrait-Multimethod Matrix: Design, Analysis, and Conceptual Issues (2014) (14)
DyaDA: An R Package for Dyadic Data Analysis (2010) (14)
Judge, that ye shall be judged: Interpersonal judgments of religious characteristics within faith communities. (2013) (13)
A test for a vanishing tetrad: The second canonical correlation equals zero (1974) (12)
Interpersonal Sensitivity, Status, and Stereotype Accuracy (2010) (12)
Correlational bias: Not gone and not to be forgotten. (1977) (12)
Matchmaker, matchmaker, can you make me a match ? Predicting liking between two unacquainted persons (1994) (12)
The NBC Study and Television Violence (1984) (12)
Using the Social Relations Model to Understand Relationships (2013) (11)
A reanalysis of a behavioral intervention to prevent incident HIV infections: Including indirect effects in modeling outcomes of Project EXPLORE (2013) (11)
The analysis of designs in which individuals are in more than one group (1993) (10)
A note on the analysis of designs in which subjects receive each stimulus only once (1980) (9)
Multivariate Analysis of Triadic Relationst (2000) (9)
The role of men’s physical attractiveness in women’s perceptions of sexual risk: Danger or allure? (2013) (9)
Relationship Science in the 21st Century (1995) (9)
Using dyadic analysis in health psychology (2010) (9)
Multi-level modelling of physical activity in nuclear families (2014) (9)
Survival of the Friendliest : Homo sapiens Evolved via Selection for Prosociality (2018) (8)
12 – The Generalized Group Effect Model* (1985) (8)
Issues in the measurement of judgmental accuracy (2013) (7)
Person Memory and Memorability: A Round Robin Analysis (1992) (7)
A Few Thoughts on the Similarities and the Differences Between Causal or Reflective Indicators of Latent Variables (2014) (7)
Couples’ psychological adjustment to twin parenthood: mode of conception (spontaneous versus assisted reproduction) and gender differences (2018) (7)
DataToText: A Consumer-Oriented Approach to Data Analysis (2010) (6)
INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS AND GROUP PROCESSES Separating Individual and Group Effects (1985) (6)
Prospects for Applying the Social Relations Model to Person Perception (1996) (4)
Thoughts on studying leadership in natural contexts (2009) (4)
Personality and Social Psychology at the Interface: New Directions for Interdisciplinary Research (2000) (3)
Book Reviews: Evaluating with Validity (1982) (3)
Interdependence Model Approach A Guide for the Estimation of Gender and Sexual Orientation Effects in Dyadic Data : An Actor-Partner (2008) (3)
Commentary: PERSOC Founded on Experience and Clear Thinking (2011) (2)
The Intergroup Social Relations Intergroup Model: ISRM (2015) (2)
The Truth and Bias Model of Judgment Tessa (2011) (2)
How Large a Sample Size Do I Need ? (2014) (1)
Judgments of moderator variables of agreement in person perception: A comparison of two cultures (2005) (1)
Reciprocity of Interpersonal Attraction : A Confirmed (2007) (1)
History, Dialectics, and Dynamics (2011) (1)
Zero Acquaintance (2007) (1)
Couple relationship moderates anxiety and depression trajectories over the transition to parenthood (2017) (1)
"Measuring similarity in couples": Correction to Kenny and Acitelli (1994). (2002) (0)
AERA et al. Amicus Brief: Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin (2013) (0)
Index (2004) (0)
Upgrading the Statistical Skills of Researchers. (1989) (0)
Analyses by Multitrait Multimethod Matrix (2016) (0)
Enhancing Validity in Psychological Research (2019) (0)
The Extended Social Relations Model: Understanding Dissimilation and Dissensus in the Judgment of Others (2020) (0)
and David A Kenny Danger or allure ? The role of men ' s physical attractiveness in women ' s perceptions of sexual risk (2013) (0)
Applying Social Relations Model to Leadership Perception (2009) (0)
of Group Composition Partner Interdependence Model to Study the Effects − Using the Actor (2012) (0)
Justify your alpha (2018) (0)
"Correlational bias in observational ratings": Erratum. (1977) (0)
Elements of Statistics for the Life and Social Sciences.@@@Statistics in Linguistics.@@@Statistical Methods for Psychology.@@@Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences. (1988) (0)
Examining the Contribution of Physical Cues for Same- and Cross-Race Face Individuation. (2023) (0)
Gendered Social Comparisons in Dyadic Judgments of Persuasiveness (2009) (0)
SRM_R: A Web-Based Shiny App for Social Relations Analyses (2022) (0)
Should Causality Be Defined in Terms of Experiments (2004) (0)
Applied Social Science@@@The Uses of Social Research: Social Investigation in Public Policy-Making.@@@Effective Evaluation: Improving the Usefulness of Evaluation Results Through Responsive and Naturalistic Approaches.@@@Estimating the Effects of Social Interventions. (1983) (0)
APIM_SEM: Estimating the APIM in a Free Online Shiny App (2017) (0)
New Meetings/Réunions nouvelles (2002) (0)
Change We Cannot Believe In (2011) (0)
Interdependent Data in Psychological Research: Statistical Nuisance or Substantive Opportunity? (2007) (0)
Epistemic Motivation and Groups’ Reaction to Change: Effects of Need for Cognitive Closure on Norms Transmissions in a Laboratory Micro-culture (2005) (0)

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