Special Issue: Affordances and Behaviour: Empirical Research 50 Years Later
In 1975, James J. Gibson wrote a short note elaborating his novel idea of affordance, which would become the central concept of ecological psychology: “Affordances are invariant combinations of properties of things (properties at the ecological level) taken with reference to a species or an individual. I now add: with reference to its needs (biological and social) as well as to its action-systems and its anatomy. The affordances for behavior and the behaving animal are complementary. Affordances are perceived, i.e., attended to. Affordance do not cause behavior but constrain or control it. Needs control the perception of affordances (selective attention) and also initiate acts.” (in Jones & Reed, 1982, pp. 410-411)
This special issue aims to herald the rich landscape of research that Gibson’s concept of affordance has developed into 50 years later. We invite empirical contributions that present original findings and/or methodological and theoretical considerations in affordance research. Contributions may address topics related but not limited to affordances and the perception of the world, affordances and the control of action, body and/or action scaling, development and learning of affordances, affordances and environmental design, and so on.
This special issue will be edited by Dr. John van der Kamp - Vrije University Amsterdam (Netherlands), Dr. Gisele C. Gotardi - Université de Rouen Normandie (France) and Dr. Ran Zheng - Vrije University Amsterdam (Netherlands), who are delighted to extend this invitation to you. Your contribution would be a valuable addition to this special issue.
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