Stevens' power law and the problem of meaningfulness

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 176-185

  Augustin, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Direct scaling; Meaningfulness; Multiplicativity; Power law; Ratio production; Scale type

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS; VISION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 41949128341     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2007.12.005     Document Type: Article

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