Mary Cover Jones (September 1, 1897 – July 22, 1987) 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.

Mary Cover Jones was christened “the mother of behavior therapy” by colleague and friend Joseph Wolpe, and has been portrayed throughout the psychological literature as a pioneer of …

Mary Cover Jones was a well-known developmental psychologist specializing in child and adolescent development. She graduated from Vassar College in 1919 then attended Columbia …

2023年8月18日 · The Little Peter, Cover-Jones (1924) experiment aimed to reduce a child’s fear of rabbits by gradually exposing him to them while simultaneously providing a positive association through the presence of enjoyable activities, leading to successful desensitization.

Mary Cover Jones is well known for her graduate work of developing and testing techniques to reduce or eliminate phobias in children. Jones’s best-known case was of a three-year-old boy named Peter, an active, courier, and an intelligent child (Jones, 1924).

Her long life (she died at almost ninety-one years old) and her extensive career led Mary Cover Jones, known as the “mother of behavior therapy,” to provide valuable knowledge in developmental psychology.

ABCT President Dr. Sandra Piementel has written an overview of Dr. Mary Cover Jones, the "Mother of Behavior Therapy" for April's issue of the Behavior Therapist.

Mary Cover Jones, one of the great pioneers of the field of developmental psychology, was born on September 1, 1896, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and died in Santa Barbara, California, on July 22, 1987.

In mental disorder: Development of behavior therapy …small boy, and in 1924 Mary Cover Jones reported the extinction of phobias in children by gradual desensitization.

Mary Cover Jones was christened "the mother of behavior therapy" in the early 1970s by colleague and friend Joseph Wolpe, and has been portrayed throughout the psychological literature as a pioneer in the field of behavior therapy because of her seminal research on the unconditioning of the fear reaction in infants.