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Twenty-two male and female subjects, aged 15 to 31 years, participated in two sessions, 11 weeks apart, of magnitude estimations of loudness. Stable individual differences in the exponent of the psychophysical power law, ψ=kϕn, were shown. The correlation between subjects’ exponents of the first and second sessions was +.59. The generality of these findings and the origin of the individual differences were discussed.
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This research was supported by a grant from the National Science
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Logue, A.W. Individual differences in magnitude estimation of loudness. Perception & Psychophysics 19, 279–280 (1976). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03204182
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