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
paragon@ParagonHouse.com
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beyond the outdated thinking that dominates psychology today, Dr.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.

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

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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