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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 on the Thematic Apperception Test.

From 1956 through 1958, he did his postdoctoral research at the University of London, Institute of Psychiatry.