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Profile
Mary Cover Jones
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Training Location(s):
PhD, Columbia University ()
MA, Columbia University ()
BA, Vassar College ()
Primary Affiliation(s):
University of California, Berkeley ()
Career Focus:
Life-span developmental psychology; longitudinal studies; personality correlates of problem drinking; behavior therapy.
Biography
Mary Cover Jones has become known as "the mother of behavior therapy" because of her early work on the unconditioning of the fear reaction in infants.
Her study of the three-year-old named Peter, in which she tested a number of procedures to remove his fear of a white rabbit, has probably been cited more extensively than any other aspect of her work. Closer examination of her car
