Stanley Smith Stevens

Stanley Smith Stevens

Stanley Smith Stevens (1906 – 1973) was an American psychologist who founded Harvard's Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory and is credited with the introduction of Stevens' 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 often used by statisticians.

In addition, Stevens played a key role in the development of the use of operational definitions in psychology.

References

*cite book
first = Neil J.
last = Smelser
coauthors = and Paul B. Baltes
year = 2001
title = International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences
pages = 15105-15108
publisher = Elsevier
location = Amsterdam, New York
id = ISBN 0-08-043076-7
url = http://web.mit.edu/epl/StevensBiography.pdf
*Nicholson, I. (2005). "From the Book of Mormon to the Operational Definition: The Existential Project of S.S. Stevens". In William Todd. Schultz (Ed.), "Handbook of Psychobiography" (pp. 285-298). New York: Oxford University Pres. ISBN 978-0195168273
*Nicholson, I. (2000). "S.S. Stevens". In Alan E. Kazdin (Ed.), "Encyclopedia of Psychology." Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press. ISBN 978-1557981875
*cite journal
last = Stevens
first = Stanley Smith
title = On the theory of scales of measurement.
journal = Science
volume = 103
pages = 677–680
date = 1946
doi = 10.1126/science.103.2684.677
pmid = 17750512


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