William Stephenson (psychologist)

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William Stephenson (May 14, 1902 - June 14, 1989) was a psychologist and physicist best known for developing Q methodology.

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Stephenson, W. (1935). Technique of factor analysis. Nature, 136, 297.

Stephenson, W. (1935). Correlating persons instead of tests. Character and Personality, 4, 17-24.

Stephenson, W. (1936). The foundations of psychometry: Four factor systems. Psychometrika, 1, 195-209.

Stephenson, W. (1953). The study of behavior: Q-technique and its methodology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Stephenson, W. (1961). Scientific creed--1961: Abductory principles. Psychological Record, 11, 9-17.

Stephenson, W. (1967). The play theory of mass communication. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Reprinted: New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1988.)

Stephenson, W. (1973). APPLICATIONS OF COMMUNICATION THEORY III-INTELLIGENCE AND MULTIVALUED CHOICE. Psychological Record, 23, 17-32.

Stephenson, W. (1977). Factors as operant subjectivity. Operant Subjectivity, 1, 3-16.

Stephenson, W. (1978). Concourse theory of communication. Communication, 3, 21-40.

Stephenson, W. (1980). Factor analysis. Operant Subjectivity, 3,38-57.

Stephenson, W. (1980). Consciring: A general theory for subjective communicability. In D. Nimmo (Ed.), Communication yearbook 4 (pp.7-36). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books.

Stephenson, W. (1982). Q-methodology, interbehavioral psychology, and quantum theory. Psychological Record, 32, 235-248.

Stephenson, W. (1983). Against interpretation. Operant Subjectivity, 6, 73-103, 109-125.

Stephenson, W. (1986). Protoconcursus: The concourse theory of communication. Operant Subjectivity, 9, 37-58, 73-96.

Stephenson, W. (1986-1988). William James, Niels Bohr, and complementarity: I-V. Psychological Record, vols 36-38.

Stephenson, W. (1987). Q-methodology: Interbehavioral and quantum theoretical connections in clinical psychology. In D.H. Ruben & D.J. Delprato (Eds.), New ideas in therapy (pp. 95-106). Westport, CT: Greenwood.

Stephenson, W. (1988). Quantum theory of subjectivity. Integrative Psychiatry, 6, 180-187.

Stephenson, W. (1990). My self in 1980: A study of culture. Operant Subjectivity, 14, 1-19.

Stephenson, W. (1990). Fifty years of exclusionary psychometrics: I-II. Operant Subjectivity, 13, 105-120, 141-162