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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      17 June 1999
      ISBN:
      9780511490040
      9780521621205
      9780521021517
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511490040
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.513kg, 268 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.405kg, 268 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Ideas, Psychology Research Methods and Statistics, History of Psychology, Psychology
      Series:
      Ideas in Context (53)
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    History of Ideas, Psychology Research Methods and Statistics, History of Psychology, Psychology
    Series:
    Ideas in Context (53)
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    This book traces how such a seemingly immutable idea as measurement proved so malleable when it collided with the subject matter of psychology. It locates philosophical and social influences (such as scientism, practicalism and Pythagoreanism) reshaping the concept and, at the core of this reshaping, identifies a fundamental problem: the issue of whether psychological attributes really are quantitative. It argues that the idea of measurement now endorsed within psychology actually subverts attempts to establish a genuinely quantitative science and it urges a new direction. It relates views on measurement by thinkers such as Holder, Russell, Campbell and Nagel to earlier views, like those of Euclid and Oresme. Within the history of psychology, it considers contributions by Fechner, Cattell, Thorndike, Stevens and Suppes, among others. It also contains a non-technical exposition of conjoint measurement theory and recent foundational work by leading measurement theorist R. Duncan Luce.

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    "Any psychologist engaged in measuring psychological attributes should read this very readable, scholarly book." APA Review of Books

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