… Psychology had achieved departmental status at Harvard in 1934, and in 1936 Stevens
accepted a position as instructor in experimental psychology. He was promoted to assistant …

… boast its own Handbook, written by 20 authors, the basic reference work for the experimental
psychologist at that … Stevens now puts before us this larger volume-45% more words, 75% …

… SS Stevens's Psychophysics first appeared just a decade ago, two years after the author's
… , Stevens had virtually completed the manuscript, which Geraldine Stevens prepared for …

… and the non-experimental psychology is more … : "Handbook for Experimental Psychologists,"
with a subtitle reading "With special attention to the interests of physiological psychologists." …

… are concave downwards when plotted against psychological magnitude, comparative
judgments exhibit a time-order error…, and equisection experiments exhibit hystersis"(a lagging …

Perceptual research has a concern with the art and the principles of scaling, because there
is an obvious need to quantify the behavior of per-ceptual systems. It is one thing to know …

… Temperature provides a clear and dramatic example of the importan of measuring stimuli
in terms of the ratio scale of distance from thresh (JC Stevens and SS Stevens). The threshold …

… Psychologist 11, 127 (1956). SS Stevens, "On the theory of scales of measurement," Science.
103, 677 (1946); Mathematics… SS Stevens, "The measurement of loudness," J. Acoust. Soc. …

… Stanley Smith Stevens—known as “Smitty” to his friends and colleagues—was one of the
great experimental psychologists … science, mathematical psychology, sensory psychology, and …

… We usually arrive at what SS Stevens calls ratio scales when we have something to measure
that can be meaningfully considered as a quantity in the ordinary sense. We get interval or …