How we learn to move in the real world: A conversation with Harry Heft.

About this episode

Marianne Davies interviews Professor Harry Heft about ecological psychology and the influence of environment on behavior.

In this episode of the River Tiger Podcast Marianne is joined by Professor Harry Heft, one of the leading voices in ecological psychology and a scholar deeply influenced by James and Eleanor Gibson. Harry shares how growing up amid the social change of the late 1960s, and his frustration with psychology’s neglect of real living environments, led him into a lifetime of work on environment–behaviour relations. The conversation explores the core ecological idea that perception is not about const...

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Host: Marianne Davies

Guest: Harry Heft

Topics covered

• ecological psychology
• environment-behaviour relations
• perception
• social change
• psychology

Keywords

• ecological psychology
• environment
• perception
• social change
• James Gibson
• Eleanor Gibson

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