Richard S. Marken

Controlling People

The Paradoxical Nature of Being Human

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We need to strive for a world where people control what is important to themselves while minimizing the controlling of others.We are all controlling people. In fact our feelings of wellbeing depend on staying in control. Just as when we drive a car, we must stay in control in everyday life in order to keep the things we care about going in the right direction. Yet this natural controlling behavior is sometimes the very reason we end up losing control. This happens when we try to control other people as well as when we try to control ourselves. So how do we do better? Based on Perceptual Control Theory (PCT), this entertaining and enlightening… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Carey, Timothy A.

ISBN: 978-1-922117-65-6
EAN: 9781922117656
Produktnummer: 20524563
Verlag: Australian Academic Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 164 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 526 KB

Über den Autor

Dr Richard S. Marken is a research psychologist, human factors engineer and statistical consultant who has worked in both academia and commerce including at Honeywell, Inc., RAND Corporation and a 15-year stint as an Engineering Specialist at The Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, CA where he developed methods for rapidly prototyping and evaluating designs for the human-computer interface component of satellite ground control systems. He is the author of four books and over 50 papers on control system theory and psychology.