Ecological Psychology in Context: James Gibson, Roger Barker, and the Legacy of William James's Radical Empiricism

By Harry Heft. 2001

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A Rich Landscape of Affordances (2014, background): “Once we follow Gibson (1979/1986) and Reed (1996) in seeing the ecological niche as primary and locate affordances in the context of a form of life, this gives affordances a reality independent from any individual animal’s actual engagement with them here and now (cf. Heft, 2001, pp. 132–135).”
An Outline of a Theory of Affordances (2003, background): “This view of affordances, endorsed by Heft (1989, 2001), is suggested by empirical studies of affordances, which follow Warren’s (1984) classic study of stair-climbing affordances in quantifying affordances with π numbers, ratios between measures of body scale, and measures of an environmental…”
The empowering variability of affordances of nature: Why do exercisers feel better after performing the same exercise in natural environments than in indoor environments? (2019, background): “Ever since Costall’s (1995) seminal paper on “socializing affordances”, a growing number of authors have adopted and developed this perspective (e.g., Heft, 2001; Rietveld & Kiverstein, 2014; van Dijk & Rietveld, 2016).”
Affordances can invite behavior: Reconsidering the relationship between affordances and agency (2012, background): “Although Gibson did not refer explicitly to phenomenologists in the development of his ecological approach, the similarities between Gibson’s ecological psychology and the work of Merleau-Ponty are striking (see e.g., Glotzbach & Heft, 1982; Heft, 2001).”
An ecological approach to expertise effects in decision-making in a simulated sailing regatta (2005, background): “Albeit sharing a broad viewpoint with some common fundamental assumptions, these perspectives differ in accents and priorities, and integration of the ideas of the founders of ecological psychology has been attempted by some authors (Heft, 2001; Vicente, 2003).”
Ecological-Enactive Cognition as engaging with a field of relevant affordances (2018, background): “The phenomenological observation that relevant affordances evoke or solicit bodily action readiness enables us to show how the perspectives of ecological psychology (Gibson 1979; Chemero 2009; Reed 1996; Heft 2001) and emotion psychology (Frijda 1986, 2007) converge: relevant affordances are bodily ”
Ecological Validity, Representative Design, and Correspondence Between Experimental Task Constraints and Behavioral Setting: Comment on Rogers, Kadar, and Costall (2005) (2007, background): “Brunswik’s (1956) definition of representativeness was the first attempt to quantify the correspondence between experimental task con- straints and behavioral settings outside the laboratory (i.e., settings that are not constructions of scientists; see Heft, 2001).”
The Affordances for Social Psychology of the Ecological Approach to Social Knowing (2007, background): “In Ecological Psychology in Context (Heft, 2001) he examines the historical and theoretical foundations of ecological psychology, suggesting that William James’s radical empiricism lies at the heart of Gibson’s ecological programme.”
Doing things with music (2011, background): “The notion of an “affordance” was first introduced by the perceptual psychologist James J. Gibson (1966, 1979)—though as Gibson himself acknowledges, the idea predates his work (see e.g., Heft 2001).”
Affordances as Properties of the Animal-Environment System (2003, background): “…that have consequences for behavior (Chemero, 2003; Stoffregen, 2000a; Warren, 1984; cf. Sanders, 1997); second, affordances are properties of the environment of an animal that have consequences for the animal’s behavior (Greeno, 1994; Heft, 2001; Lombardo, 1987; Reed, 1996; Turvey, 1992).”
Affordances: Four Points of Debate (2003, background): “(Heft, 2001, p. 124) The first step would be the identification of events and the perception of some of their properties.”
The Social Constitution of Perceiver-Environment Reciprocity (2007, background): “Finally, there is much benefit to be gained by returning to some of J. Gibson’s intellectual antecedents in order to broaden the scope of ecological psychology (Heft, 2001).”