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Fifty male Ss made judgments of (1) thickness by finger span, (2) extent of arm movement, (3) heaviness of lifted weights, (4) force by handgrip, and (5) speed of arm movement. The method was fractionation: halving the magnitude of each stimulus. Comparisons were made in terms of the size of the exponent of the sensory scale.
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This article is based upon a dissertation submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Southern California in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the PhD degree (physical education). The author is indebted to A. S. Lockhart, dissertation committee chairman, and to C. Lovell, of the Department of Psychology at the University of Southern California, for valuable assistance in the conduct of this research.
Research was conducted at the University of Southern California.
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Hoff, P.A. Scales of selected aspects of kinesthesis. Perception & Psychophysics 9, 118–120 (1971). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03213043
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