Dr. Jeffrey B. Wagman

I am Professor of Psychology at Illinois State University and I am affiliated with the Cognitive and Experimental Psychology Sequence in the Master’s in Psychology Program. I have been at Illinois State University​ since 2003. I am also the Psychology Department Honors Coordinator and Chairperson of the Psychology Department Awards​ Committee. I am an Associate Editor of the journal Ecological Psychology. I was honored to receive the ISU Outstanding University Researcher Award in 2019. Julia Blau and I recently co-edited a book called Perception as Information Detection: Reflections on Gibson’s Ecological Approach to Visual Perceptio​n. Our next book Introduction to Ecological Psychology: A lawful approach to perceiving, acting, and cognizing was published in Summer 2022.

 Research Interests

• Perception-action
• Ecological psychology​
• Perception of affordances​
• Haptic perception and tool use
•  Perceptual learning

Teaching Interest​s 

• Introduction to Psychology
• Cognition and Learning
• Perception 
• Cognitive Science