Stevens' power law
Función potencial de Stevens
- Date
- 1957 · confidence medium
- Place
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Credited to
- Stanley Smith Stevens
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
Empirical psychophysics law describing the power-law relationship between the intensity of a physical stimulus and the perceived magnitude of the sensation, formulated by Stanley Smith Stevens to supersede the logarithmic Weber-Fechner law.
What it led to
- Magnitude-estimation methods in experimental psychology
- Psychophysical scales used in acoustics and pain perception
- Revision of the classic Weber-Fechner paradigm in psychophysics
- Applications in interface design and sensory ergonomics