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-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.

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• {{cite book

| first = Neil J.
| last = Smelser
| coauthors = and Paul B. Baltes
| year = 2001
| title = International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences
| pages = 15105-15108
| publisher = Elsevier
| location = Amsterdam, New York
| id = ISBN 0-08-043076-7
| url = http://web.mit.edu/epl/StevensBiography.pdf

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