Stanley Smith Stevens

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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.

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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 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
• Stevens, Stanley Smith (1946). "On the theory of scales of measurement.". Science 103: 677-680. doi:10.1126/science.103.2684.677.