ABSTRACT
In the interview conducted by Agnes Szokolszky in 2001 Gunnar Jansson recounts how his research career began and how he became a research assistant, then research associate of Gunnar Johansson in the 1950s. He describes the field experiments they conducted in traffic psychology and his change of focus on motion perception that came with his Ph.D. work with Gunnar Johansson who pursued a noncognitivist approach to motion perception. In the interview, Gunnar Jansson describes the research directions he pursued and gives an insider's view of Johansson's personality and an overview of students and collaborators around him. He describes the relationship between Johansson and James Gibson and shares his thoughts on ecological psychology. In his current reflection on Dr. Jansson's interview, Dankert Vedeler, a former colleague puts Jansson's work into perspective.
