The collective control of perceptions: constructing order from conflict

McClelland, Kent A.

doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2003.08.003

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“…A person trying hard to not feel anxious may simply get more sensitive to change in anxiety. However, if they focus awareness on the higher level goals that are in conflict, then they realize other ways to feel safe and be a normal person a review, see McClelland, 2004;Pellis & Bell, 2011). Classically, many of these studies require a participant to keep some aspect of their environment 'on target' and use their actions to dynamically eliminate aspects of their environment that would lead them away from their goal.…”

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“…We propose that it can explain the active ingredients of change in psychotherapy, and generate effective and efficient interventions across presenting problems, service contexts, modes of delivery, and levels of severity. While the basic science of PCT is well-founded McClelland, 2004), research on its implications for psychological distress and its treatment is still emerging. Therefore, in the current article we report on this evidence and focus on the theoretical foundations and practice implications.…”

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Science and Practice of Transdiagnostic CBT: A Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) Approach

Alsawy¹,

Mansell²,

Carey³

et al. 2014

International Journal of Cognitive Therapy

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The scientific and practical justifications for transdiagnostic CBT are well known and yet there is no consensus on the theoretical approach that should inform it. In this article, we explain the scientific and practical benefits of using Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) by introducing the theory, discussing how it explains the maintenance of psychological distress, the different ways that distress is manifested across disorders, and reviewing evidence for the theory and its applications. We explain how PCT can inform existing active ingredients of CBT such as exposure, behavioral activation, decentering, formulation, and the therapeutic alliance. We also introduce Method of Levels therapy as a transdiagnostic CBT informed by PCT, and describe the implications for service organization and modes of delivery, understanding help-seeking, and recovery. We conclude by considering limitations and directions for future developments.We are writing this article as a tribute to William T. Powers who developed the theory we describe here. He passed away on Friday May 24, 2013 in Lafayette, Colorado at the age of 86. We hope that this article does justice to the depth and breadth of his theory, and to the scientific, judicious, and philanthrophic spirit

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Science and Practice of Transdiagnostic CBT: A Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) Approach

Alsawy¹,

Mansell²,

Carey³

et al. 2014

International Journal of Cognitive Therapy

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“…When more than one individual acts within an environment, the social implications are realized, such as the capacity for conflict when reference values differ (e.g., arguments, wars) and collective control when they overlap (the shared values of an organization) (McClelland, 2004). …”

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A biopsychosocial model based on negative feedback and control

Carey

Mansell

Tai

2014

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Although the biopsychosocial model has been a popular topic of discussion for over four decades it has not had the traction in fields of research that might be expected of such an intuitively appealing idea. One reason for this might be the absence of an identified mechanism or a functional architecture that is authentically biopsychosocial. What is needed is a robust mechanism that is equally important to biochemical processes as it is to psychological and social processes. Negative feedback may be the mechanism that is required. Negative feedback has been implicated in the regulation of neurotransmitters as well as important psychological and social processes such as emotional regulation and the relationship between a psychotherapist and a client. Moreover, negative feedback is purported to also govern the activity of all other organisms as well as humans. Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) describes the way in which negative feedback establishes control at increasing levels of perceptual complexity. Thus, PCT may be the first biopsychosocial model to be articulated in functional terms. In this paper we outline the working model of PCT and explain how PCT provides an embodied hierarchical neural architecture that utilizes negative feedback to control physiological, psychological, and social variables. PCT has major implications for both research and practice and, importantly, provides a guide by which fields of research that are currently separated may be integrated to bring about substantial progress in understanding the way in which the brain alters, and is altered by, its behavioral and environmental context.

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“…This kind of support is important because humans in joint activities do not always infer the other members' intentions or conflicts. Indeed, it is both possible and a common occurrence, for joint activity to take place in which one operator is not even aware that the other operator exists (MacClelland, 2004). Such situations can make it more difficult to detect conflicts and heighten the need for automatic conflict detection.…”

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A method for conflict detection based on team intention inference

Kanno

Nakata

Furuta

2006

Interacting with Computers

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One of the typical causes of errors in team cooperative activities, such as in central control rooms of power plants and cockpits in aircrafts, is conflicts among team members' intentions. If mutual awareness and communication were perfectly established and maintained, conflicts could be detected and recovered by team members; however, this does not happen in practice. In this paper, we provide a framework for detecting conflicts among team members' intentions based on team intention inference, aiming to make machines function as a coordinator for cooperative activities. In previous work, we developed a method for team intention inference based on a definition of 'we-intention'. We-intention is other-regarding intentions relating to situations in which some agents act together, and is represented as a set of individual intentions and mutual beliefs. In this framework, a conflict can be defined as a set of individual intentions and false beliefs (undesired procedures), and detected by searching for such combinations. We applied the proposed method to the operation of a plant simulator operated by a twoperson team, and it was confirmed through an experiment that this method could list candidates for conflicts by type and set the actual conflict high in priority in the tested context. q

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The collective control of perceptions: constructing order from conflict

Cited by 83 publications

References 29 publications

Science and Practice of Transdiagnostic CBT: A Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) Approach

Science and Practice of Transdiagnostic CBT: A Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) Approach

A biopsychosocial model based on negative feedback and control

A method for conflict detection based on team intention inference

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