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).
The Study of Living Control Systems
Books
The wonder weeks: A stress-free guide to your baby’s behavior
Authors: Plas-Plooij, Xaviera; Plooij, Frans X.; Rijt-Plooij, Hetty van de. Plas-Plooij, Xaviera; Plooij, Frans X.; Rijt-Plooij, Hetty van de (2019). The wonder weeks: A stress-free guide to your baby’s behavior (6 ed.). New York: The […]
Bill Powers
Things I’d like to say if they wouldn’t think I’m a nut Or — Overgeneralizations that aren’t that far over.
Another hard-hitting comment on the state of our contemporary behavioral sciences. […]
Bill Powers
Perceptual Control Theory at 40
This intro to PCT is slanted toward those coming into to this subject from the physical sciences. Bill Powers develops an argument that leads from conventional views of behavior to the new view that PCT gives us, emphasizing in the end the odd role that organisms, seen through the eyes of PCT, play in a world otherwise dominated by physical laws. The point will be to show that control theory provides us with the germ of a radically new understanding, a break with all traditional theories of behavior—and many new ones as well […]