Stanley Smith Stevens

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Stanley Smith Stevens (1906-1973) was an American psychologist best known as the founder of Harvard's Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory and 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.

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Smelser, Neil J.; and Paul B. Baltes (2001). International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences. Amsterdam, New York: Elsevier, 15105-15108. ISBN 0-08-043076-7.
Nicholson, I. (2005). "From the Book of Mormon to the Operational Definition: The Existential Project of S.S. Stevens". In W. Schultz (Ed.), Handbook of Psychobiography (pp. 285-298). New York: Oxford University Pres.
Nicholson, I. (2000). "S.S. Stevens". In A. Kazdin (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press.
Stevens, S.S. (1946). "On the theory of scales of measurement." Science, 103, 677-680.