Stanley Smith Stevens, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Stanley Smith Stevens

American psychologist & scholar

Date of Birth: 04-Nov-1906

Place of Birth: Ogden, Utah, United States

Date of Death: 18-Jan-1973

Profession: psychologist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Stanley Smith Stevens (November 4, 1906 – January 18, 1973) was an American psychologist who founded Harvard's Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory, studying psychoacoustics, and he is credited with the introduction of Stevens's 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 widely used by scientists but whose use in some parts of statistics has been criticized.In addition, Stevens played a key role in the development of the use of operational definitions in psychology.
A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Stevens as the 52nd most cited psychologist of the 20th century.