Are individual differences in temperament of relevance to Gibson's theory of affordances? Hooley, M. and Crassini, B. 2003, Are individual differences in temperament of relevance to Gibson's theory of affordances?, in ICPA 2003 : Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Perception and Action. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Are individual differences in temperament of relevance to Gibson's theory of affordances? Author(s) Hooley, M. orcid.org/0000-0002-6632-5719 Crassini, B. Conference name International Conference on Perception and Action (12th : 2003 : Brisbane) Conference location Brisbane, Qld. Conference dates 13-18 Jul. 2003 Title of proceedings ICPA 2003 : Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Perception and Action Editor(s) Treffner, P. Publication date 2003 Summary The ambitious scope, complexity, and difficulty of Gibson’s project in proposing the theory of affordances are captured nicely by the words of Gibson’s biographer, Ed Reed: “Gibson was convinced that the theory of affordances, in conjunction with the concepts of information, persistence, and change, would enable him to transcend the ancient debate between subjectivity and objectivity and to resolve the mind-body problem. … [H]e was offering a new approach to problems of psychology, one that he believed would not sink in the morass that have engulfed previous psychologies.” (Reed, 1988, p. 280). These characteristics of the theory of affordances are further evidenced in the debates about the nature of affordances presented in the suite of papers in Ecological Psychology, Volume 12(1). In this paper we propose an elaboration of the notion of affordance by suggesting that those persisting individual differences in behaviour described as temperamental differences (e.g., differences on a dimension of temperament anchored at one end by behaviour described as ‘outgoingness’ and at the other by behaviour described as ‘avoidance’) can be integrated into the theory of affordances. We argue that such integration is consistent with Gibson’s project as reflected in Reed’s words, and as part of our argument, draw parallels between the integration of temperament with the theory of affordances and the way in which individual differences in body dimensions are incorporated in the theory. We also outline some empirical tests of our proposition. Notes Conference website : http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/ecopsyc/isep/ICPA-conf/ Language eng Field of Research 170109 Personality, Abilities and Assessment Socio Economic Objective 970117 Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences HERDC Research category E3.1 Extract of paper Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30025985 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: Faculty of Health School of Psychology Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 26 Mar 2010, 13:19:21 EST Mon, 29 Mar 2010, 14:01:25 EST Fri, 16 Apr 2010, 14:42:15 EST Fri, 26 Nov 2010, 14:25:33 EST Fri, 26 Nov 2010, 14:27:22 EST Fri, 10 Oct 2014, 08:38:07 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 361 Abstract Views, 2 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 26 Mar 2010, 13:19:21 EST