Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, PH.D.
Jeffrey Jensen Arnett is a Research Professor in the Department of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is also the Executive Director of the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood (SSEA; see ... During 2005 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has also taught at Oglethorpe University and the University of Missouri. He was educated at Michigan State University (undergraduate), the University of Virginia (graduate school), and...See more
Jeffrey Jensen Arnett is a Research Professor in the Department of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is also the Executive Director of the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood (SSEA; see ... During 2005 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has also taught at Oglethorpe University and the University of Missouri. He was educated at Michigan State University (undergraduate), the University of Virginia (graduate school), and the University of Chicago (postdoctoral studies). His research interests are in risk behavior (especially cigarette smoking), media use in adolescence (especially music), and a wide range of topics in emerging adulthood. He was editor of the Journal of Adolescent Research from 2005 through 2014 and has also edited two encyclopedias, the I nternational Encyclopedia of Adolescence (2007) and the Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media (2007). The second edition of his book Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens Through the Twenties was published in 2015. He is also the author of a life span textbook, H uman Development: A Cultural Approach (2015, Pearson). He lives in Worcester, Massachusetts, with his wife Lene Jensen and their seventeen-year-old twins, Miles and Paris. For more information on Dr. Arnett and his research, see ... See less