Your Behavior: Understanding and Changing the Things You Do - Softcover

Pfau, Richard H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557789274 ISBN 13: 9781557789273

Publisher: Paragon House, 2017

Synopsis

This book will help you to: (1) analyze your own behavior based on a comprehensive understanding of why you do the things you do, (2) change your behavior if you want to, and (3) better understand why others behave as they do. Based on an approach that will take you beyond the outdated thinking that dominates psychology today, Dr. Pfau unveils informative secrets about human behavior, including the techniques that others use to influence what you do, how automatically and routinely you behave in most situations, and why. Our body's structure and organization affect what we do and help us to survive. Learn how our body and the environment around us interact to affect what we perceive and how we behave. Knowing this will put you at the cutting-edge of science and human behavior and allow you to understand your behavior and change it.

About this title

From the Back Cover

"Richard Pfau has written an engaging, accurate book on a complex subject. To introduce the power of Perceptual Control Theory to a general readership in a way that may help in their everyday lives is no easy feat, but this book does just that. Highly recommended."  - Martin Taylor, Ph.D., P.Eng., Senior Experimental Psychologist (Retd.), Defense Research Canada

"Wow! I am impressed with this book! It is comprehensive, neatly structured, and provides a great scientific context for introducing Perceptual Control Theory to the layperson. The explanation builds up gradually over the chapters. Fantastic."  - Warren Mansell, DPhil, DClinPsy, CPsychol, Reader in Psychology, University of Manchester, U.K.

About the Author

Richard H. Pfau earned a Ph.D. in science education and a B.A. with honors in psychology. He has served as a lecturer, professor, and consultant in International Management and International Education, spending several years in Africa and Asia. Dissatisfied with psychology's lack of appreciation of insights from the hard sciences, he spent many years in work and research aimed at understanding behavior around the world and developing a more up-to-date, scientific explanation of human behavior than that which dominates psychology today.

Edition details

• Publisher: Paragon House
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1557789274
• ISBN 13: 9781557789273
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 392