Selected publications

BOOK CHAPTERS:


Heft,H. (2012).   The foundations of ecological psychology. In  S. Clayton(Ed.), Handbook of Environmental andConservation Psychology (pp. 1-40). New York: Oxford University Press.


Heft,H. (2012).  Way-finding, navigation, and spatial cognition from a naturalist’s standpoint.  In D. Waller & L. Nadel (Eds.). The handbook of spatial cognition (pp.265-294). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.


Heft,H. (2011).  E.B. Holt’s concept of therecession of the stimulus and the emergence of the “situation” in psychology.  In Charles, E. P. (Ed.)  A new look at new realism: E. B. Holtreconsidered (pp. 191-219). Piscataway, NJ. Transactions Publishing    

 

Heft,H. (2010).  Affordances and the perception of landscape: An inquiry into environmental perception andaesthetics.  In C.W. Thompson, P.Aspinall, & S. Bell (Eds.), Innovative approaches to researching landscape and health (pp. 9-32).  London:  Routledge.

 

Heft,H. & Chawla, L. (2006). Children as Agents inSustainable Development: Conditions for Competence. In M. Blades &C. Spencer (Eds.), Children and Their Environments (pp. 199-216). Cambridge, UK:Cambridge University Press.

 

Heft,H. (1999). Affordances of children's environments. In J. Nasar & W. Preiser(Eds.), Directions in person-environment research and practice. (pp.43-69). Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing. (reprint ofHeft, 1988a, with a new afterword)

 

Heft, H. (1998).  Towards a functional ecology of behavior and development: The legacy of Joachim F. Wohlwill.  In D. Gorlitz, H. J. Harloff, G. Mey & J. Valsiner (Eds.), Children, cities, and psychological theories: Developing relationships. (pp. 85-110). Berlin: Walter De Gruyter.

 

Heft, H. (1997). The relevance of Gibson's ecological approach for environment-behavior studies. In G.T. Moore & R.W. Marans (Eds.), Advances in environment, behavior, and design  Vol. 4. (pp. 71-108) New York: Plenum.

 

Heft, H. (1996). The ecological approach to navigation: A Gibsonian perspective.  In J. Portugali (Ed.), The construction of cognitive maps (pp. 105-132). Dordrect: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

        Part I.   Part II.

 

 Heft, H., & Wohlwill, J.F.  (1987).  Environmental cognition in children.  In D. Stokols & I. Altman (Eds.), Handbook of Environmental Psychology.  New York:  John Wiley             (pp.175‑204).

 

             Wohlwill, J. F., & Heft, H. (1987).  The physical environment and the  development of the child.  In D. Stokols & I. Altman (Eds.), Handbook of   Environmental Psychology.  New                         York:


 RESEARCH AND THEORETICAL PAPERS:


Heft, H. (2013).Environment, cognition, and culture: Reconsidering the cognitive map. Journalof Environmental Psychology, 33, 14-25.

 

Heft, H. (2007). The social constitution of perceiver-environment reciprocity. EcologicalPsychology. 19, 85-105.


Heft, H., & Saegert, S. (2007). A review of:  A Natural History of Pragmatism: The Fact of Feeling from Jonathan Edwards to Gertrude Stein by Joan Richardson. William James Studies, 2(1).    http://williamjamesstudies.press.uiuc.edu/


           Heft, H.(2003). Affordances, dynamic experience, and the challenge of reification. Ecological Psychology, 15, 149-180.

 

Heft,H. (2002). Restoring naturalism to James’s epistemology: A belated reply to Miller & Bode. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 38,557-580.

 

Chawla, L., & Heft H. (2002).  Children’s competence and the ecology of communities: A functional approach to the evaluation of participation. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 22, 201-216.


Heft, H., & Nasar, J.L. (2000). Evaluating environmental scenes using dynamic versus static displays. Environment & Behavior,32, 301-322.

 

Heft, H. (1998). Why primary experience is necessary. Contemporary Psychology, 43, 450-451.

 

            Heft, H. (1993).  A methodological note on overestimates of reaching distance: Distinguishing between perceptual and analytical judgments.  Ecological       Psychology, 5,                             255-271.


Heft,H. (1989). Affordances and the body:  Anintentional analysis of   Gibson'secological approach to visual perception. Journal for the Theory of SocialBehavior, 19, 1-30.