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Stanley Smith Stevens
American psychologist & scholar (1906-1973)
Stanley Smith Stevenswas an American psychologist who founded Harvard’s Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory, studying psychoacoustics, and he is credited with the introduction of Stevens’s power law. Stevens authored a milestone textbook, the 1400+ page Handbook of Experimental Psychology (1951).
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Stanley Smith Stevenswas an American psychologist who founded Harvard’s Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory, studying psychoacoustics, and he is credited with the introduction of Stevens’s power law. Stevens authored a milestone textbook, the 1400+ page Handbook of Experimental Psychology (1951). He was also one of the founding organizers of the Psychonomic Society. In 1946 he introduced a theory of levels of measurement widely used by scientists but whose use in some areas of statistics has been criticized. In addition, Stevens played a key role in the development of the use of operational definitions in psychology.
A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Stevens as the 52nd most cited psychologist of the 20th century. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the United States National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.
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A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.
Stanley Smith StevensAmerican psychologist & scholar (1906-1973)
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The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.
Stanley Smith StevensAmerican psychologist & scholar (1906-1973)
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The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.
Stanley Smith StevensAmerican psychologist & scholar (1906-1973)