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Understanding Things You Do: Changing

This document provides information about a book titled "Your Behavior: Understanding and Changing the Things You Do" by Richard H. Pfau. The 384-page book is published by Paragon House and sells for $24.95 in paperback. It uses Perceptual Control Theory to help readers analyze their own behavior, understand why they and others act the way they do, and change behaviors if desired. The book is structured into parts that cover the relationship between individuals, their bodies, environments, and behavior theories.

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Understanding Things You Do: Changing

This document provides information about a book titled "Your Behavior: Understanding and Changing the Things You Do" by Richard H. Pfau. The 384-page book is published by Paragon House and sells for $24.95 in paperback. It uses Perceptual Control Theory to help readers analyze their own behavior, understand why they and others act the way they do, and change behaviors if desired. The book is structured into parts that cover the relationship between individuals, their bodies, environments, and behavior theories.

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YOUR BEHAVIOR

UNDERSTANDING AND
CHANGING THE THINGS
YOU DO
Author: Richard H. Pfau
Pub. Date: March 1, 2017
Publisher: Paragon House
Price: $24.95 paperback
ISBN: 978-1-55778-927-3
Specs: 384 pages, 6 x 9 in., Notes
Subject: Psychology, Cybernetics, Self-Help
Distributor: Bookmasters (Atlas Books)
Contact: Rosemary Yokoi
Paragon House, US 651-644-3087
[email protected]
Rights: All Rights Available

“Wow! I am impressed with this book! It is comprehensive and neatly


structured! And provides a great scientific context for introducing
Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) 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.

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beyond the outdated thinking that dominates psychology today, Dr.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.

Order from your bookstore or www.ParagonHouse.com


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YOUR BEHAVIOR UNDERSTANDING AND CHANGING
THE THINGS YOU DO

CONTENTS
Preface PART IV: Behavior Theories,
Introduction Analysis, and Change
PART I: You and Your Body CHAPTER 9: Theories and Models of
CHAPTER 1: You Are a Survivor! Human Behavior

CHAPTER 2: You Are Organized to CHAPTER 10: How to Analyze Your


Survive Behavior
CHAPTER 11: Lessons Learned: How
PART II: You and Your Behavior
to Change Your Behavior
CHAPTER 3: What Affects What You
Do? Appendices
Appendix 1: Levels of Analysis and
CHAPTER 4: How You Became the
Explanation
Way You Are
Appendix 2: Guide for Analyzing a
CHAPTER 5: How Regular and Current Behavior
Routine is Your Behavior? Appendix 3: Guide for Analyzing a
PART III: Your External Former Behavior
Environment Appendix 4: Planning Guide for
Behavior Change
CHAPTER 6: You and Your
Appendix 5: Behavior Change Checklist
Immediate Environment
Appendix 6: Some Ways Others
CHAPTER 7: Perception of Your Attempt to Influence Your Behavior
Environment
Endnotes
CHAPTER 8: Your Broader
References
Environment and Its Influence

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.

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