An Application of Psychophysical Scaling Techniques to the Measurement of National Power
An Application of Psychophysical Scaling Techniques to the Measurement of National Power
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心理物理量表技术在国家实力测量中的应用
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10.2307/2128353
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发表时间：
1969
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通讯作者：
Allen M. Shinn
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作者：
Allen M. Shinn
近年来，精神病学家已经花费了大量的努力，试图开发出准确和实用的主观量级量表，即，衡量“真实的”变量大小的尺度。这些努力已经取得了相当大的成功，至少在相当有限的领域，这项工作已经完成，它已或多或少决定性地表明，有可能以相当高的精度测量主观的，或感知的，这些变量的大小，如声音的响度，光的亮度，重量的重量。这似乎与国际政治研究没有直接关系，但有迹象表明，心理物理学中发展的技术和方法可能直接应用于社会规范，意见和态度的测量。因此，我们有汉布林（Hamblin）关于社会地位的几项研究，塞尔林和沃尔夫冈（Wolfgang）关于各种青少年犯罪行为的严重性的研究，埃克曼（Ekman）和昆纳帕斯（Kunnapas）关于瑞典君主重要性的研究，以及其他一些研究。
In recent years, psychophysicists have expended a great deal of I effort in attempts to develop accurate and practical scales of subjective magnitude, i.e., scales that measure perceptions of the magnitudes of "real" variables. These efforts have met with considerable success, at least in the rather limited area in which this work has been done, and it has been more or less conclusively shown that it is possible to measure with considerable accuracy the subjective, or perceived, magnitudes of such variables as loudness of sound, brightness of light, and heaviness of weight.' That this is so may not seem of direct relevance to the study of international politics,2 but there are indications that the techniques and methodology developed in psychophysics may have direct application to the measurement of social norms, opinions, and attitudes. Thus we have several studies of social status by Hamblin,3 a scale of the seriousness of various acts of juvenile delinquency developed by Sellin and Wolfgang,4 a study that scales the importance of Swedish monarchs by Ekman and Kunnapas,5 and others.