Jeff Arnett

After working as a singer and guitar player for a couple of years after college graduation, I went to grad school and got a PhD in developmental psychology from the University of Virginia in 1986. I was a professor of psychology at a number of universities, most notably the U. of Missouri and Clark University in Worcester, MA, where I still live with my wife Lene Jensen, who is also a professor and developmental psychologist. I've done a lot of fun things in my career, including writing many books and serving as an expert witness against the tobacco companies for their ads targeting adolescents in the 1990s. Most fun of all has been being a dad to my two amazing twins, Miles and Paris, born in 1999.

Too many to mention! But here's one.
For Senior Prom, I jokingly asked my English Lit teacher, Miss Golding, if I could borrow her Lincoln Mark IV for the event. To my astonishment, she readily agreed. So I stayed sober and drove very safely, right? Haha, you must not have known me in high school. My buddy Kirk Getsinger and I took it out to a lake that day and on the way we tested how fast we could get it to go. 120 mph is what I remember, which I think was as high as the speedometer would go. Then we drank beer all day at the lake and drove it back. I did, somehow, manage to drive it safely to the prom and returned it cleaned and with a full gas tank to Miss G the following Monday.