biography
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Stevens, S(tanley) S(mith)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1906–73)
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| biography:
| Experimental psychologist, born in Ogden, Utah, USA. He studied at Harvard, and taught there from 1932 until his death. He made important contributions to our understanding of the sense of hearing, but also devised general theories and experimental techniques for the study of the ‘scaling’ of sensory qualities (such as loudness, brightness, and pain). His major reference work is The Handbook of Experimental Psychology (1951). |
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