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Collection Overview
Abstract
Professor of psychology at Yale University. The collection includes articles on the subjects of physics and psychology; and two books entitled, Laboratory Experiments in Psychology and Sensation and Measurement: Papers in Honor of S. S. Stevens.
Biographical Note
Joseph Charles Stevens was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on February 28, 1929. Stevens attended Calvin College as an undergraduate, earning his B.A. in biology in 1950. He went on to earn his M.A. in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1953. After earning his Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University in 1957, he stayed on campus as an Instructor in psychology. By 1961 Stevens served Harvard as assistant professor of psychology until 1966.
In 1966 he accepted a research associate and lecturer position at Yale University. Stevens also became a fellow at the John B. Pierce Laboratory, an independent research institution that is affiliated with Yale University. Throughout his career he participated in many scientific organizations such as American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Psychological Society. He also contributed to many scientific journals as well. Stevens stayed with both Yale and the John B. Pierce Laboratory until his death on February 7, 2014.
After his passing, he bequeathed $1 million to Calvin College for faculty research in the sciences.
Box and Folder Listing
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Series 1: [General Materials]],
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Series 2: Articles, 1957-1974],
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Series 3: Books, 1965-74],
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- Series 1: [General Materials]
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Shelf List
- Series 2: Articles --- 1957-1974
- Box 1
- Folder 2
- Item 1: "Estimations of Loudness by a Group of Untrained Observers" --- 1957
- Item 2: "The Growth of Subjective Magnitude with Stimulus Intensity" --- 1958
- Item 3: "Stimulus Spacing and the Judgment of Loudness" --- 1958
- Item 4: "The Perception of Repetition Rate" --- 1959
- Item 5: "Scales of Apparent Force" --- 1959
- Folder 3
- Item 1: "Physiological Zero and the Psychophysical Law" --- 1960
- Item 2: "Growth of Sensation on Seven Continua as Measured by Force of Handgrip" --- 1960
- Item 3: "Warmth and Cold: Dynamics of Sensory Intensity" --- 1960
- Item 4: "The Form of the Loudness Function near Threshold" --- 1961
- Item 5: "Brightness Function: Effects of Adaptation" --- 1963
- Item 6: "The Dynamics of Subjective Warmth and Cold" --- 1963
- Folder 4
- Item 1: "Applications of Power Functions to Perceptual-motor Learning" --- 1964
- Item 2: "A High-intensity Flash-source" --- 1964
- Item 3: "Individual Loudness Functions" --- 1964
- Item 4: "Cross-modality Matching of Brightness and Loudness" --- 1965
- Item 5: "Psychofit" --- 1965
- Folder 5
- Item 1: "Brightness and loudness as functions of stimulus duration" --- 1966
- Item 2: "Individual brightness functions" --- 1966
- Item 3: "Apparent warmth as a function of thermal irradiation" --- 1967
- Item 4: "Brightness function: Binocular versus monocular stimulation" --- 1967
- Item 5: "Brightness inhibition re size of surround" --- 1967
- Item 6: "The Senses" --- 1967
- Folder 6
- Item 1: "The form of the psychophysical function near threshold" --- 1968
- Item 2: "Perceived warmth and skin temperature as functions of the duration and level of thermal irradiation" --- 1968
- Item 3: "Psychophysics" --- 1968
- Item 4: "The Skin Senses" --- 1968
- Item 5: "The Quantitative Assessment of Thermal Discomfort" --- 1969
- Folder 7
- Item 1: "Measurement of Muscle Fatigue by a Constant-Effort Procedure" --- 1970
- Item 2: "Pain, Discomfort, and Warmth as Functions of Thermal Intensity" --- 1970
- Item 3: "Psychophysical scales of apparent heaviness and the size-weight illusion" --- 1970
- Item 4: "Effort in isometric muscular contractions related to force level and duration" --- 1970
- Item 5: "Subjective Warmth in Relation to the Density, Duration, and Areal Extent of Infra-Red Irradiation" --- 1970
- Folder 8
- Item 1: "Effort in Sustained and Phasic Handgrip Contractions" --- 1971
- Item 2: "Spatial summation and the dynamics of warmth sensation" --- 1971
- Item 3: "Spatial Summation in Relation to Speed of Reaction to Radiant Stimulation" --- 1971
- Item 4: "Variety in Color Science" --- 1971
- Folder 9
- Item 1: "Brightness function: Role of the pupil" --- 1972
- Item 2: "Effort in Isometric Contractions: Buildup and Recovery" --- 1972
- Item 3: "On the Form of Learning Curves" --- 1972
- Item 4: "Perceived Cold and Skin Temperature as Functions of Stimulation Level and Duration" --- 1972
- Folder 10
- Item 1: "Constant-effort contractions related to the electromyogram" --- 1973
- Item 2: "The Hard Facts of Psychology" --- 1973
- Item 3: "Spatial Summation of Warmth: Influence of Duration and Configuration of the Stimulus" --- 1973
- Item 4: "Temporal summation at the warmth threshold" --- 1973
- Item 5: "Temporal summation related to the nature of the proximal stimulus for the warmth sense" --- 1973
- Folder 11
- Item 1: "Families of Converging Power Functions in Psychophysics" --- 1974
- Item 2: "Obituary" --- 1974
- Item 3: "Psychophysical invariances in proprioception" --- 1974
- Item 4: "Regional Sensitivity and Spatial Summation in the Warmth Sense" --- 1974
- Item 5: "Variation of Sensitivity to Thermal Stimulation over Body Surface" --- 1974
- Folder 12
- Item 1: "Abstract of 'A Comparison of Ratio Scales for the Loudness of White Noise and the Brightness of White Light" --- undated
- Item 2: "Convergence of Psychophysical Power Functions" --- undated
- Series 3: Books --- 1965-74
- Item 1: Laboratory Experiments in Psychology --- 1965
- Item 2: Sensation and Measurement: Papers in Honor of S. S. Stevens --- 1974
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