S. S. Stevens papers,

Overview of the Collection Creator Stevens, S. S. (Stanley Smith), 1906-1973 Title S. S. Stevens papers Dates 1934-1981 (inclusive) 1934 1981 Quantity 1.75 linear feet Collection Number Accn1888 Summary The Stanley Smith ("Smitty") Stevens papers (1934-1981) contain biographical information, articles, and other publications. Stevens (1906-1973) was born in Ogden, Utah to Stanley and Adeline Smith Stevens. He went on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1925-1928 to Belgium and Switzerland. He attended the University of Utah, but transferred to Stanford University where in 1931 he received his A. B. degree. Originally pursuing medicine as a career, Stevens was admitted to Harvard Medical School, but he later changed to Psychology. Stevens received a Ph.D. in 1933 from Harvard University. He later became a professor and the director of the psychophysics laboratory at Harvard University. Repository University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library University of Utah 295 South 1500 East Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0860 Telephone: 801-581-8863 SPCreference@lists.utah.edu Access Restrictions Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law. Languages English Biographical Note Stanley Smith ("Smitty") Stevens (1906-1973) was born in Ogden, Utah to Stanley and Adeline Smith Stevens. He went on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1925-1928 to Belgium and Switzerland. He attended the University of Utah, but transferred to Stanford University where in 1931 he received his A. B. degree. Originally pursuing medicine as a career, Stevens was admitted to Harvard Medical School, but he later changed to Psychology. Stevens received a Ph.D. in 1933 from Harvard University. He later became a professor and the director of the psychophysics laboratory at Harvard University. http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv76937 1

Content Description The Stanley Smith Stevens papers (1934-1981) contain biographical information, articles, and other publications. Use of the Collection Restrictions on Use It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from the S. S. Stevens papers must be obtained from the Special Collections Manuscript Curator. Preferred Citation Initial Citation: S. S. Stevens papers, Accn 1888, Box [ ]. Special Collections and Archives. University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott. Salt Lake City, Utah. Following Citations: Accn 1888. Administrative Information Acquisition Information Gift of Geraldine Stevens in 2001. Processing Note Processed by Kate Kimball in 2001. Detailed Description of the Collection Biographical Information and Articles, A-N, 1934-1972 Box1 Box 1 Folder http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv76937 2

1 Autobiographical Essay and Biographical Information 2 "Adaptation Level vs. The Relativity of Judgment" 1958 3 "The Apparent Reduction of Loudness" 1955 4 "The Attributes of Tones" 1934 5 "The Auditory Input-Output Function" 6 "The Basis of Psychophysical Judgments" 1963 7 "Binaural Summation of Loudness" 1960 8 "Biological Transducers" 9 "Brightness Function: Effects of Adaptation" 1963 10 "Calculating Loudness" 1957 11 "Calculation of the Loudness of Complex Noise" 1956 12 "The Calculation of the Loudness of Noise" 1956 13 "Calculating the Perceived Level of Light and Sound" 1972 14 "Cardiac Acceleration in Emotional Situations" 1937 15 "A Classification of Scales of Measurement" 16 "Concerning the Form of the Loudness Function" 1957 17 "Concerning the Measurement of Brightness" 1966 18 "Concerning the Psychophysical Power Law" 1964 19 "Cross-Modality Matching of Brightness to Loudness by 5 yr. Olds" 20 "Cross-Modality Validation of Subjective Scales for Loudness, Vibration, and Electric Shock" 1969 1959 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv76937 3

21 "Critical Band Width in Loudness Summation" 1957 22 "Decibels of Light and Sound" 1955 23 "A Demonstration of Positive and Negative Visual After-Images" 24 "The Development of Recorded Auditory Tests for Measuring Loss for Speech" 1947 25 "The Direct Estimation of Sensory Magnitudes--Loudness" 1956 26 "Duration, Luminance, and the Brightness Exponent" 1966 27 "The Dynamics of Subjective Warmth and Cold" 1963 28 "Effect of Glare Angle on the Brightness Function for a Small Target" 29 "The Emotional Responses: Changes of Heart-Rate in a Gun- Shy Dog" 1965 1938 30 "The Estimation of Loudness by Unpracticed Observers" 1956 31 "Factors in the Production of Aural Harmonics and Combination Tones" 32 "Finger Span: Ratio Scale, Category Scale, and Just Noticeable Difference (JND) Scale 33 "Growth of Sensation on Seven Continua as Measured by Force of Handgrip" 1937 1959 1960 34 Handbook of Experimental Psychology 1951 35 "To Honor Fechner and Repeal His Law" 1961 36 "Intensity Functions in Sensory Systems" 1967 37 "Introduction: A Definition of Communication" 1950 38 "Issues in Psychophysical Measurement" 1971 39 "Is There a Quantal Threshold?" 1961 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv76937 4

40 "The Localization of Actual Sources of Sound" 1936 41 "The Localization of Pitch Perception on the Basilar Membrane" 1935 42 "The Localization of Pure Tones" 1934 43 "Loudness Functions Under Inhibition" 1967 44 "Loudness: A Product of Volume Times Density" 1965 45 "Loudness, Reciprocality, and Partition Scales" 1962 46 "Machines Cannot Fight Alone" 1946 47 "The Masking of Pure Tones and of Speech by White Noise" 1950 48 "Masking and Sensory Dynamics" 1967 49 "The Masking of Speech by Sine Waves, Square Waves, and Regular and Modulated Pulses" 50 "Matching Functions between Loudness and Ten Other Continua" 1946 1966 51 "Measurement of Auditory Density" 1964 52 "The Measurement of Loudness" 1955 53 "Measurement and Man" 1957 54 "Measurement, Psychophysics, and Utility" 1959 55 "Measurement and Social Science" 56 "Measurement, Statistics, and the Schemapiric View" 1968 57 "A Mechanical Correlator" 1938 58 "The Mechanism of Hearing by Electrical Stimulation" 1939-1940 59 "Methods Measuring Speech Spectra" 1947 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv76937 5

60 "A Metric for the Social Consensus" 1966 61 "The NAS- NRC (National Research Council) and Psychology" 1952 62 "The Nature of Tonal Brightness" 1936 63 "Neural Events and the Psychophysical Law" 1970 64 "A Neural Quantum in Sensory Discrimination" 1972 65 "The New Harvard Psychological Laboratories" 1947 Articles, O-R, 1934-1974 Box2 Box 2 Folder 1 "On the Averaging of Data" 1955 2 "On the Brightness of Lights and the Loudness of Sounds" 1953 3 "On the Halving and Doubling the Loudness of White Noise" 4 "On Hearing by Electrical Stimulation" 1937 5 "On Measurement of Sensation" 1957 6 "On the Method of Bisection and its Relation to a Loudness Scale" 1937 7 "On the Nature of Aural Harmonics" 1936 8 "On the New Psychosis" 1960 9 "On the Operation Known as Judgment" 1966 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv76937 6

10 "On the Pitch of Frequency-Modulated Tones" 1938 11 "On the Predicting Exponents for Cross-Modality Matches" 1969 12 "On the Problem of Scales for the Measurement of Psychological Magnitudes" 1939 13 "On the Psychophysical Law" 1957 14 "On the Theory of Scales and Measurement" 1946 15 "On the Uses of Poidilitic Functions" 1965 16 "On the Validity of the Loudness Scale" 1959 17 "The Operational Basis of Psychology" 18 "The Operational Definition of Psychological Concepts" 1935 19 "Operations or Words?" 1966 20 "Perceived Level of Noise by Mark VII and Decibels (E)" 1971 21 "Perceptual Magnitude and its Measurements" 1974 22 "The Phenomenon of Masking" 1935 23 "Pitch Discrimination, Mels and Kock's Contention" 1954 24 "Power-Group Transformations Under Glare, Masking, and Recruitment" 1966 25 "Premodulation Clipping in AM Voice Communication" 1947 26 "Problems and Methods of Psychophysics" 1958 27 "Procedure for Calculating Loudness: Mark VI" 1961 28 "A Psychological Scale of Weight and a Formula for Its Derivation" 1948 29 "Psychological Writing, Easy and Hard" http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv76937 7

30 "Psychology: The Propaedeutic Science" 1936 31 "Psychology and the Science of Science" 32 "Psychophysics and the Measurement of Loudness" 1968 33 "The Psychophysics of Sensory Function" 1960-1961 34 "Psychophysics and Social Scaling" 1972 35 Psychophysics, Review 36 "Psychophysiological Acoustics: Pitch and Loudness" 1936 37 "The Psychophysiology of Hearing" 1936 38 "In Pursuit of the Sensory Law" 1962 39 "The Quantification of Sensation" 1959 40 "The Quantification of Tonal Volume" 1962 41 "Le Quantitatif et La Perception" 1968 42 "Quantifying the Sensory Experience" 43 "The Quantum of Sensory Discrimination" 1940 44 "Ratio Scales and Category Scales for a Dozen Perceptual Continua" 1957 45 "Ratio Scales of Opinion" 1968 46 "Ratio Scales, Partition Scales, and Confusion Scales" 1960 47 "Rectilinear Rectification Applied to Voltage Integration" 1942 48 "Regression Effect in Psychophysical Judgment" 1966 49 "Relation of Brightness to Duration and Luminance under Light and Dark Adaptations" 1964 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv76937 8

50 "The Relation of Pitch to Frequency: A Revised Scale" 1940 51 "The Relation of Pitch to Intensity" 1934 52 "The Relation of Saturation to the Size of the Retinal Image" 1934 53 "Review of Das Ohr Als Nachrichtenempfanger" 1968 Articles, S-W, 1934-1973 Box3 Box 3 Folder 1 "Saturation of Red: A Prothetic Continuum" 1966 2 "A Scale of Apparent Intensity of Electric Shock" 1958 3 "A Scale for the Measurement of a Psychological Magnitude: Loudness" 4 "A Scale for the Measurement of the Psychological Magnitude Pitch" 1936 1937 5 "Scaling of Apparent Viscosity" 1964 6 Scaling of Saturation and Hue" 1966 7 "The Scaling of Subjective Roughness and Smoothness" 1962 8 "The Science of Noise" 1946 9 "Sensory Scales of Taste Intensity" 1969 10 "Sensory Power Functions and Neural Events" http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv76937 9

11 "Sensory Transform Functions" 1962 12 The Ski & Me 1966 13 "Some Similarities between Hearing and Seeing" 1958 14 "El Sonido" 1973 15 "Stability of Human Performance under Intense Noise" 1972 16 "Subjective Hardness of Compliant Materials" 1964 17 "Subjective Intensity of Coffee Odor" 1960 18 "Subjective Scaling of Length and Area and the Matching of Length to Loudness and Brightness" 1963 19 "The Surprising Simplicity of Sensory Metrics" 1962 20 "A Switch for the Presentation of Electrically Generated Tonal Stimuli" 21 "Table Relating Phons and Sones" 22 "Tactile Vibration: Change of Exponent with Frequency" 1968 23 "Tactile Vibration: Dynamics of Sensory Intensity" 1959 24 "Theory of the Neural Quantum in the Discrimination of Loudness and Pitch" 1941 25 "Tonal Density" 1934 26 "Toward a Resolution of the Fechner-Thurstone Legacy" 1961 27 "Transfer Functions of the Skin and Muscle Senses" 1966 28 "Vision, Hearing and Aeronautical Design" 29 "Voice Level: Autophonic Scale, Perceived Loudness, and Effects of Sidetone" 1961 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv76937 10

30 "The Volume and Intensity of Tones" 31 "Warmth and Cold: Dynamics of Sensory Intensity" 1960 General Materials, 1935-1981 Box4 Box 4 Folder 1 American Psychological Association, "Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards" 1960 2 Georg von Békésy, "The Ear" 3 Hallowell Davis and Douglas A. Ross, "Selection of Hearing Aids" 4 Miguelina Guirao, "Perceived Vibration and the Loudness of Low-Frequency Tones" 1945 1975 5 C. E. M. Hansel, "The Market for Miracles" 1967 6 Robert S. Harper, "The Laboratory of William James" 1949 7 Edwin B. Newman, "Steven's Operationism" 1973 8 Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory, Harvard University, Check-List of Reports 1945-1961 9 Symposium before the American Otological Society, Articles 1935 10 USA Standard 1968 11 Miscellaneous 1981 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv76937 11

Names and Subjects Subject Terms : Psychophysics--Sources Psychophysiology--Sources Senses and sensation--sources Personal Names : Stevens, S. S. (Stanley Smith), 1906-1973--Archives Form or Genre Terms : Articles Finding aid created by Kate Kimball 2001 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ About Creative Commons Licenses in Archives West: http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/cc-zero.shtml http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv76937 12