At present, the application of PCT to Law is at its early stages. Hugh Gibbons is one exception. He has co-authored a biological model of human rights based around the tenets of PCT and he also illustrates a case using PCT in this book, “The Death of Jeffrey Stapleton”, published online. […]
A comprehensive introduction to PCT and its implications for the social and physical environment, on a global scale, are described in an online article by Kent McClelland. There are also a number of online articles that relate […]
Edited by Warren Mansell First edition – May 16, 2020 The Interdisciplinary Handbook of Perceptual Control Theory brings together the latest research, theory, and applications from W. T. Powers’ Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) that proposes […]
Method of Levels introductory text to follow
Latest discussions in the Method of Levels section on Discourse […]
6-8 October 2022, we’ve organized our 32nd annual IAPCT conference, online. […]
Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) is the science of purpose: how living things use their actions to produce intended results in an unpredictably changing environment. The technical term for this is control. PCT provides a unified and […]
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Sociology involves understanding how people behave in groups, including how they communicate and interact with one another. PCT provides a way to understand how people’s goals operate when in groups, and we can use computers […]
The Study of Living Control Systems, a handbook of research methodology in psychology by Richard S. Marken is available from Cambridge University Press and from booksellers (February 2021).
In 2020 and 2021, Warren Mansell and Eva de Hullu organized an online MOL training to make the method and theory accessible for international participants. The training was hosted on a google site domain. The […]
Online conference, October 2021 […]
Thursday & Friday, 8-9 0ctober 2020 (UT) […]
Martin Taylor Note: This salute to William T. Powers, the creator of Perceptual Control Theory (PCT), was posted to the CSGNet discussion list by Martin Taylor on September 15, 2016 and is posted here with […]
NOTE: Bill Powers’s work Living Control Systems III : The Fact of Control (2008) with updated Windows programs is recommended. These programs and the book explaining them provide an excellent introduction to PCT. The programs themselves are superior […]
Timothy A. Carey and W. Thomas Bourbon https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10534512060420010201
Henry H. Yin (2016) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1073858416654115
Heather C. Bell, Greg D. Bell, […], and Sergio M. Pellis (2015) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1059712315607606
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