Marian Breland Bailey

Marian Breland Bailey
Born
Marian Ruth Kruse

(1920-12-02)December 2, 1920
Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
DiedSeptember 25, 2001(2001-09-25) (aged 80)
Hot Springs, Arkansas, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Minnesota
Occupations
Known forPioneer in humane animal training
Spouses
Keller Breland
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(m. 1941; died 1965)​
Robert E. Bailey
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(m. 1976)​
Children3
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology

Marian Breland Bailey (born Marian Ruth Kruse; December 2, 1920 – September 25, 2001)[1] was an American psychologist, an applied behavior analyst who played a major role in developing empirically validated and humane animal training methods and in promoting their widespread implementation. She and her first husband, Keller Breland (1915–1965), studied at the University of Minnesota under behaviorist B. F. Skinner[2] and became "the first applied animal psychologists."[3] Together they wrote the book Animal Behavior which was first published in 1966, after Keller's death.

  1. ^ Clark, C. (2001). Marian Breland (Mouse) Bailey, Ph.D. 1920 – 2001 Archived April 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. The Centre for Applied Canine Behaviour. Retrieved on February 20, 2007.
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  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Bailey-Joy was invoked but never defined (see the help page).