Stanley smith stevens biography of mahatma
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S. S. Stevens
In 1934 Stanley Smith Stevens received his Ph.D.
from the newly independent psychology department at Harvard, and two years later accepted a position as instructor in experimental psychology. Known professionally as “S.
Stanley Wolpert elaborates on the role of suffering in Gandhi's life in Gandhi's Passion 42, citing Abel-Smith and Stevens, Lawyers and the.
S. Stevens” and by his colleagues as “Smitty” in the ensuing decades, Stevens built a renowned laboratory of experimental psychology in the basement of Memorial Hall at Harvard. His own research focused on the relationship between the perceived magnitude of a stimulus and its objective physical magnitude.
More generally, Stevens was a pioneer in psychoacoustics, and a major organizer of the field of experimental psychology.
In the course of his research, Stevens discovered that the most direct way of measuring the perceived intensity of a stimulus (e.g.
a light, a sound, a smell, a shock) was simply to ask people to assign it a number, without putting a limit on the scale or forcing them to choose the units. (This depart