One major study was that of affordances, i.e. the perceived utility of objects in, or features of, one's surroundings.
This view was central to several other fields as software user interface and usability engineering, environmentalism in psychology, and ultimately to political economy where the perceptual view was used to explain the omission of key inputs or consequences of economic transactions, i.e. resources and wastes.
Gerard Egan and Robert Bolton explored areas of interpersonal interactions based on the premise that people act in accordance with their perception of a given situation.
This gives rise to the idea that the most common problems between people are based on the assumption that we can guess what the other person is feeling and thinking.
[3] Nativist and empiricist approaches to perceptual psychology have been researched and debated to find out which is the basis in the development of perception.