The first woman to receive a Ph.D.in psychology later wrote an influential book,The Animal Mind.Her name was

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Mary Whiton Calkins was the first woman to complete all the requirements for a Ph.D. in psychology, but she never actually received the degree due to discrimination. Rosalie Rayner was a research assistant who worked with John Watson on the famous Little Albert experiment, but she did not receive a Ph.D. in psychology. Jean Piaget was a Swiss psychologist who studied child development, not animal behavior. Margaret Floy Washburn, on the other hand, was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in psychology from Cornell University in 1894 and went on to write the influential book "The Animal Mind."

The First Woman to Receive a Ph