James J. Gibson papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 14-23-1832

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Professional papers include extensive drafts, notes, outlines, and occasional letters related to colloquia, conferences, courses, lectures, seminars, and symposia given at Smith College and Cornell; also, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, notes, and pamphlets for a course on propaganda planned for 1939. Gibson's experimentation and research papers include drafts, notes, and correspondence in many areas of perceptual psychology including aviation, perspective, and physiological optics. Documentation for published material includes drafts and typescripts of articles, books, essays, short papers, diagrams, original sketches, photographs, and tables; also, annotated reprints by Gibson and other prominent psychologists. Correspondence includes letters to and from the Houghton Mifflin Company and LEONARDO magazine concerning Gibson's writing career; with groups such as the National Academy of Sciences, the Symposium of Oral Sensation, and the Research Career Award; and with Rudolf Arnheim, Jacob Beck (University of Oregon), Edwin G. Boring (Harvard University), James Bosma (National Institute of Dental Research), Michelangelo Fluckiger (with a recommendation from Jean Piaget), E. H. Gombrich, Mary Henle, Gunnar Johansson, David N. Lee, William Mace (University of Texas) Norman Malcolm (Cornell University), Frank J. Malina (founder and editor of LEONARDO magazine), Fabio Metelli (Italy), and Albert Michotte.

Joseph M. Notterman (Princeton Advisory Council), Joseph Royce (Center for Theoretical Psychology), and Robert E. Shaw (University of Connecticut). Also, Gibson books annotated by Gibson.

2 DVDs (DVD-914 and 915) containing videos of Remembering Gibson Symposium at International Conference on Perception and Action (ICPA), 2013.

Dates

1922-1980.

Creator

Gibson, James J. (James Jerome), 1904-1979. (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor of psychology, Smith College, 1929-1949; Cornell University, 1949-1979.

Extent

14.6 cubic feet. (14.6 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

Gibson's experimentation and research papers include drafts, notes, and correspondence in many areas of perceptual psychology including aviation, perspective, and physiological optics. Documentation for published material. Correspondence concerning Gibson's writing career.

RELATED MATERIALS

Other Gibson material courtesy of Trinity College, including Remembering Gibson Symposium at International Conference on Perception and Action (ICPA) 2013 http://commons.trincoll.edu/isep

James Gibson's Purple Perils, http://commons.trincoll.edu/purpleperils.

Physical Description

Professional papers include extensive drafts, notes, outlines, letters, conferences, courses, lectures, seminars, and symposia, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, notes, and pamphlets, research papers include drafts, notes, and correspondence, typescripts of articles, books, essays, short papers, diagrams, original sketches, photographs, and tables.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: G. Solomon, M.E. Warren
Date completed:: May 1988
EAD encoding:: Dan Sterner, September 2006
Date modified:: RMC Staff, August 2016