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Last updated on November 22, 2024.

Mary Cover Jones was an American developmental psychologist and a pioneer of behavior therapy, despite the field being heavily dominated by males throughout much of the 20th century. Joseph Wolpe dubbed her "the mother of behavior therapy" due to her famous study of Peter and development of desensitization.

September 1, 1897 - July 22, 1987

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He showed in the last interview, as on the later portions of the chart, a genuine fondness for the rabbit.

Mary Cover Jones

From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.

Mary Cover Jones

Peter's fear of the animals which were shown him was probably not a directly conditioned fear.

Mary Cover Jones

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