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Edward E. Jones

:For the Louisiana civil rights pioneer, see ''E. Edward Jones''.

| birth_place = Buffalo, New York, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = Morehead City, North Carolina, U.S. | occupation = Psychologist | education = Harvard University }}

Edward Ellsworth "Ned" Jones (August 11, 1926 – July 30, 1993) was an influential American 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. Provided by Wikipedia