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Month: March 2022

Psychology

Why Does the Concept of Affordances Still Seem So Difficult for Some Psychologists to Understand?

March 29, 2022

Dr. James Gibson’s revolutionary ecological theory of perceiving and acting has been around for over 40 years. A key element in his theory is the concept of affordances. Yet even after all the time and years that psychologists have written about affordances, the concept still doesn’t seem well understood. Why?

Personal, Psychology

Why I Became a Psychologist

March 28, 2022

This is the personal question my students have asked me most often over the years, which makes it as good a place as any to start.

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