Edward E. Jones

Edward Ellsworth "Ned" Jones (1926 to 1993) was an influential American social psychologist, known for his work on how people explain the behavior of others and on the psychology of ingratiation. He earned his doctorate in clinical psychology at Harvard University, taught at Duke University, and from 1977 worked at Princeton University. With Keith Davis he developed correspondent inference theory within attribution research, and a 1967 paper with Victor Harris led to what became known as the fundamental attribution error. With Richard Nisbett he described the actor-observer bias. He also wrote on self-presentation and was an opponent of behaviorism. A 2002 survey ranked him the 39th most cited psychologist of the twentieth century, and a volume of his selected works was edited by his former student Daniel Gilbert.