Edward E. Jones
| Edward Ellsworth "Ned" Jones | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 11, 1926 Buffalo, New York |
| Died | July 30, 1993 (aged 66) Morehead City, North Carolina |
| Education | Harvard University |
| Occupation | Psychologist |
Edward Ellsworth "Ned" Jones (August 11, 1926 – July 30, 1993) was an influential social psychologist, he is known as father of Ingratiation due to his major works in the area. He worked at Duke University and from 1977 at Princeton University. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Jones as the 39th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.
Along with Keith E. Davis, he is known for developing correspondent inference theory within the field of psychological attribution.
He earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Harvard University.
In the classic text Fundamentals of Social Psychology, which he co-wrote with Harold B. Gerard and published in 1967, they explain:
Our aim has been to write a systematic presentation of social psychology that emphasizes the experimental approach....Social psychology is a subdiscipline of psychology that especially involves the scientific study of the behavior of individuals as a function of social stimuli. This definition seems to say something important and to say it with pedantic precision...By the end of World War II, the way was paved for an outpouring of experimental research involving the manipulation of experimental subjects' temporary social environment and an examination of the effects of this manipulation on attitudes, behavior, and various emotional states. Questions of behavioral causation could now be examined with closer scrutiny than was possible through questionnaires and interviews. The outlines of an empirical, and especially an experimental, social psychology have clearly emerged.
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