Julia J. C. Blau is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, USA. Her research focuses on the fractality of event perception, as well as the Ecological approach to film theory and aesthetics. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Ecological Psychology.

Jeffrey B. Wagman is a Professor of Psychology at Illinois State University, USA. His research focuses on perception of affordances and perception by touch. He is a recipient of the Illinois State University Outstanding University Researcher Award and a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan. He is an Associate Editor of the journal Ecological Psychology.

Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword: Resources for Ecological Psychology

Acknowledgements

Foreword: Introduction to Ecological Psychology, by Claudia Carello

Part One. Introduction to Theory

Chapter 1. Starting the Conversation

Chapter 2. Where We Went Wrong

Chapter 3. Starting Over

Chapter 4. What is Ecological Theory?

Part Two. Reconceptualizing Old Problems in an Ecological Way

Chapter 5. Affordances-What is Perceived?

Chapter 6. Ecological Optics and Visual Perception-Getting Light Into Muscle

Chapter 7. Ecological Acoustics and Auditory Perception-Getting Sound Into Muscle

Chapter 8. Ecological Haptics and Perception by Touch-Muscles as the Medium

Chapter 9. Action and Coordination

Chapter 10. Development of Perceiving and Acting Abilities

Chapter 11. Perceiving and Acting With Others: An Ecological Social Psychology

Chapter 12. Thinking, Learning, and Remembering

Chapter 13. Applications of Ecological Psychology

Part Three. Zooming Out

Chapter 14. Dynamical Systems

Chapter 15. Evolution

Chapter 16. Self-Organization

Chapter 17. Intelligent Life

References

Index