# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-cover-jones
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:49:08.399Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-cover-jones"
name: "Mary Cover Jones"
slug: "mary-cover-jones"
description: "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."
tagline: "American psychologist (1897–1888)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MaryCoverJones1919.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1897-09-01"
deathDate: "1987-07-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.75374533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "玛丽·琼斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماري كوفر جونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cover_Jones"
    title: "Mary Cover Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cover_Jones"
    title: "Mary Cover Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cover_Jones"
    title: "Mary Cover Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مری کاور جونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cover_Jones"
    title: "Mary Cover Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cover_Jones"
    title: "Mary Cover Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cover_Jones"
    title: "Mary Cover Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "メアリー・カバー・ジョーンズ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cover_Jones"
    title: "Mary Cover Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Джонс, Мэри Кавер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cover_Jones"
    title: "Mary Cover Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2733744"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump