The (Old) New Realism: What Holt Has to Offer for Ecological Psychology

Charles, Eric P.

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“…A central goal of much of this work has been to argue that linguistic events and other social events are directly perceived (e.g., Charles, 2009;Chemero, 2009;Fowler, 1986Fowler, , 1996Schmidt, 2007) and have affordances (Chemero, 2009;Heft, 2007;Kono, 2009;Schmidt, 2007). The analysis presented in this paper suggests that many language-related behaviors (e.g., entrainment) are directly perceived.…”

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Laws and Conventions in Language-Related Behaviors

Golonka

2015

Ecological Psychology

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Laws and Conventions in Language-Related Behaviors

Golonka

2015

Ecological Psychology

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“…Jacobs and Michaels 2002). At first sight this way to understand perception and action might indeed seem to be closely related to the principles of New Realism as described by Charles (2009) : (1) we experience reality, (2) relations are real, and (3) things are what you see when you see those things. Even though these statements do indicate an influence of New Realism on ecological psychology, we think that Charles underestimates the importance of the differences addressed in the following section.…”

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“…1 The mere assumption of realism is therefore by no means unique to ecological psychology. As described by Charles (2009), realism is a historical heritage of ecological psychology from New Realism, and it can be further rooted back to American functionalism.…”

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The Ecological Level of Analysis: Can Neogibsonian Principles be Applied Beyond Perception and Action?

Travieso

Jacobs

2009

Integr. psych. behav.

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Is it useful to apply ecological principles, developed to understand perception and action, in research areas such as social psychology? Charles (Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Sciences 43(1) 53-66 2009) warns ecological psychologists interested in this question that much time and effort can be saved through a backwards extension to or rediscovery of the New Realism tradition. In response, we analyze what ecological psychology risks to lose with such a backwards extension and describe existing extensions of the approach not considered by Charles. According to Charles, New Realism holds that: (1) we experience reality, (2) relations are real, and (3) things are what you see when you see those things. Our arguments originate from a comparison of these principles with six recently described ecological ones: (1) organism-environment systems are the proper units of analysis, (2) environmental realities should be defined at the ecological scale, (3) behavior is emergent and self-organized, (4) perception and action are continuous and cyclic, (5) information is specificational, and (6) perception is of affordances (Richardson et al. 2008).

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“…In "The (Old) New realism: What Holt has to offer for Ecological Psychology", Charles (2009) has suggested as future area of research the expansion of Ecological Psychology into the social realm. He points out that to the social psychologists "it is uninteresting to point out the many ways in which interacting other people is the same as interacting with coffee cups", hence "if there is to be anything unique to an ecological approach to social psychology, we must talk about those traits that are unique to the social situation"(p.17).…”

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Social Affordances and the Possibility of Ecological Linguistics

Kōno

2009

Integr. psych. behav.

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This paper includes an effort to extend the notion of affordance from a philosophical point of view the importance of ecological approach for social psychology, ethics, and linguistics. Affordances are not always merely physical but also interpersonal and social. I will conceptualize affordance in general and social affordance in particular, and will elucidate the relation between intentional action and affordances, and that between affordances and free will. I will also focus on the relation between social institution and affordance. An extended theory of affordances can provide a way to analyze in concrete ways how social institution works as an implicit background of interpersonal interactions. Ecological approach considers social institution as the producer and maintainer of affordances. Social institutions construct the niches for human beings. Finally, I will argue the possibility of the ecological linguistics. Language is a social institution. The system of signs is the way to articulate and differentiate interpersonal affordances. Language acquires its meaning, i.e. communicative power in the interpersonal interactions, and interpersonal interactions, in turn, develop and are elaborated through the usage of signs. Communication is seen as never aimed to transmit inner ideas to others, but to guide and adjust the behaviors of others thorough articulating the affordance of responsible-ness.

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The (Old) New Realism: What Holt Has to Offer for Ecological Psychology

Cited by 9 publications

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Laws and Conventions in Language-Related Behaviors

Laws and Conventions in Language-Related Behaviors

The Ecological Level of Analysis: Can Neogibsonian Principles be Applied Beyond Perception and Action?

Social Affordances and the Possibility of Ecological Linguistics

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