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Aside from teaching, I edit the journal, Ecological Psychology, and direct the International Society for Ecological Psychology (ISEP).
Papers -- with Commentary
Mace, W. M. (2010) Ecological psychology.In I. Weiner, (Ed.),Corsini's Handbook of Psychology, Fourth Edition. NY: Wiley.. |
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Mace, W. M. & Heft, H. (2009). Ecological psychology.In E. Bruce Goldstein (Ed.), Handbook of Perception. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. |
January, 2010 -- Invited entry in a very large reference source. Related entries are by Geoff Bingham and Bill Warren. |
Mace, W. M. (2005). James J. Gibson’s Ecological Approach: Perceiving What Exists.Ethics & the Environment, 10, 195-216. |
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Shaw, R. E. & Mace, W. M. (2005). The value of oriented geometry for ecological psychology.In J. D. Anderson and B. F. Anderson, Moving image theory. Ecological considerations. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. |
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Mace, W. M. (2002). The primacy of ecological realism.Behavioral and brain sciences, 25, 111. |
Commentary on target article by Joel Norman. The full exchange can be found HERE |
Mace, W. M. (2001). Amodal specifying information: Where is occlusion? (commentary)Behavioral and brain sciences, 24, 226 – 227. |
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Mace, W. M. (2000). Discussion: The roots of emerging ecological psychology.Ecological psychology, 12, 345 - 352. |
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Mace, W. M. (1997). In memoriam: Edward S. Reed. 1954 - 1997.Ecological Psychology, 9, 179 - 188 |
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Shaw, R. E., Flascher, O. & Mace, W. M. Dimensions of event perception.In W. Prinz & B. Bridgeman, Handbook of perception. Berlin: Springer-Verlag [German version out in 1994] |
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Mace, W. M. (1986). J. J. Gibson's ecological theory of information pickup: Cognition from the ground up.In T. Knapp and L. Robertson (Eds.), Approaches to Cognition: Concepts and Controversies. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. |
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Mace, W. M. (1985). Johansson's approach to visual perception--Gibson's perspective.In W. H. Warren and R. E. Shaw (Eds.), Persistence and Change. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. |
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Mace, W. M. (1983). Proceedings of a meeting of the International Society for Ecological Psychology.Journal of experimental psychology: Human perception and performance, 9, 151-157. |
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Shaw, R. E., Turvey, M. T. & Mace, W. M. (1981). Ecological psychology: The consequence of a commitment to realism.In W. Weimer & D. Palermo (Eds.). Cognition and the symbolic processes V. II. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. |
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Turvey, M. T., Shaw, R. E., Reed, E. S. & Mace, W. M. (1981). Ecological laws of perceiving and acting: In reply to Fodor and Pylyshyn (1981).Cognition, 9, 237-304. | |
Mace, W. M. & Turvey, M. T. (1983). The implications of occlusion for perceiving persistence.The behavioral and brain sciences, 6, 29-31. | |
Mace, W. M. (1980). Perceptual activity and direct perception. Commentary on article by Shimon Ullman.The behavioral and brain sciences, 3, 392-393. | |
Turvey, M. T., Shaw, R. E. & Mace, W. M. (1978). Issues in the theory of action.In J. Requin (Ed.), Attention and performance VII. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. |
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Mace, W. M. (1977). James J. Gibson's strategy for perceiving: Ask not what's inside your head, but what your head's inside of.In R. E. Shaw & J. Bransford (Eds.), Perceiving, acting, and knowing, 43-65. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates |
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Mace, W. M. & Pittenger, J. B. (1975). Directly perceiving Gibson: A further reply to Gyr.Psychological bulletin, 82, 137-139. | |
Shaw, R. E., McIntyre, M. & Mace, W. M. (1974). The role of symmetry in event perception.In R. B. MacLeod & H. Pick (Eds.), Studies in perception: Essays in honor of James Gibson. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. | |
Mace, W. M. & Shaw, R. E. (1974). Simple kinetic information for transparent depth.Perception & Psychophysics, 15, 201 - 209. |
January, 2010 -- This is based on my 1971 Ph.D. dissertation done under Bob Shaw at Minnesota. |
Mace, W. M. (1974) Ecologically stimulating cognitive psychology.In W. Weimer & D. Palermo, (Eds.),Cognition and the symbolic processes V.I, 137 - 164. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. |
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Mace, W. M., Shaw, R. E. (1974). Simple kinetic information for transparent depth.Perception & Psychophysics, 15, 201 - 209. |
September, 2009 -- This is based on my 1971 Ph.D. dissertation done under Bob Shaw at Minnesota. |
Leventhal, H. & Mace, W. M. (1970). The effect of laughter on evaluation of a slapstick movieJournal of Personaility |
September, 2009 -- This 1968 paper, based on my undergraduate research, is still thought - provoking. Reporting that something is funny is related to laughter, but with variable coupling. Boys found it easy to laugh in the presence of the W. C. Fields movie clip and then report that it was not especially funny. Girls did not do that. Laughing and judging the movie to be funny were better correlated for girls. The trends showed up across several age groups. Howard Leventhal thought of this as a difference in how much people were paying attention to their bodily reactions while making a cognitive judgment -- boys tended to ignore, girls did not. Later research done by other Leventhal collaborators showed that these biases could be manipulated. The coupling is more soft and malleable than hard and fast. By 1970, I was immersed in issues in visual perception and the ecological approach -- the major topic of all the other papers. |