Your Behavior: Understanding and Changing the Things You Do

...a brilliantly organized trove of knowledge that will leave readers with a better understanding of what makes us tick.... by reading this book you will understand your behavior and be able to use this knowledge to change said behavior. It's a pretty lofty goal, but Your Behavior achieves it brilliantly... Other books claim they'll change your life; Your Behavior gives you the tools to change it yourself. RECOMMENDED by the US Review.

Pfau's objective is clear from the start. Rather than seeking to persuade, he seeks to educate.... Pfau consistently and subtlety reminds us that science and scholarship are part of a learning process and that it is important not to make judgments about the work of others without offering thoughtful and measured alternatives. In the case of PCT, the whole is, indeed, greater than the parts. The parts are, as it were, a composite of all the efforts, scientific, scholarly and experimental over time that have contributed to our current understanding, evaluation and acceptance of such a big theory as is Perceptual Control Theory.

While Pfau's book offers a remarkably helpful guide to understanding and changing one's behavior, it equally serves as a valuable guide for learning about Perceptual Control Theory (PCT). The basic thesis of PCT and its various corollaries inform the book's first eight chapters which describe and discuss the human living organism, its operations (i.e. behavior), and the environment in which it exists to survive.

"The book assiduously gives the reader a through overview of the body's mental and sensory processes and some of the current theories used to describe and understand human behavior.... Thoroughly researched, accessibly written, and insightful, Your Behavior will help you understand where your own, as well as others' behavior, comes from."