Friedrich Maria Urban

Friedrich Maria Urban (born Friedrich Johann Victor Urban; 28 December 1878 – 4 May 1964) was an Austrian-Czech psychologist, known for the introduction of probability weightings used in experimental psychology.

Biography Friedrich Johann Victor Urban was born on 28 December 1878 into a German-speaking family in Brno, Moravia, Austria-Hungary. He adopted the name "Friedrich Maria" as a pen name and his published articles appear under the name "F. M. Urban".

Müller-Urban weights Müller-Urban weights are based on techniques introduced by G. E. Müller in 1904 and by F. M. Urban in 1912.

Contemporary psychologists have replaced Müller-Urban weights with newer statistical procedures.

Selected publications with R. M. Yerkes: "Time-Estimation in its Relations to Sex, Age, and Physiological Rhythms." in Harvard Psychological Studies vol. 2 (1906): 405–430. The application of statistical methods to the problems of psychophysics. No. 3. Psychological Clinic Press, 1908. "The method of constant stimuli and its generalizations." Psychological Review 17, no. 4 (1910): 229–259. "The future of psychophysics." Psychological Review 37, no. 2 (1930): 93–106. "The Weber-Fechner law and mental measurement." Journal of Experimental Psychology 16, no. 2 (1933): 221–238. "The method of equal appearing intervals." Psychometrika 4, no. 2 (1939): 117–131.