STANLEY SMITH STEVENS

'Stanley Smith Stevens' (1906-1973) was an American psychologist best known as the founder of Harvard's Psycho-Acoustical 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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★ International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences, , Neil J., Smelser, Elsevier, 2001, 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.