[From Rick Marken (2013.08.28.1500)]
For some reason, the journal Psychological Reports in which I published my latest paper “Making Inferences about Intention: Perceptual Control Theory as a Theory of Mind for Psychologists” has seen fit to put out a press release on it. I believe you can see it at:
http://www.amsci.com/finding-a-valid-measure-of-behavioral-intentions/
Let’s see if this puts PCT on the map.
Best
Rick
–
Richard S. Marken PhD
rsmarken@gmail.com
www.mindreadings.com
Congrats, Rick.
Andrew
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Richard Marken rsmarken@gmail.com wrote:
[From Rick Marken (2013.08.28.1500)]
For some reason, the journal Psychological Reports in which I published my latest paper “Making Inferences about Intention: Perceptual Control Theory as a Theory of Mind for Psychologists” has seen fit to put out a press release on it. I believe you can see it at:
http://www.amsci.com/finding-a-valid-measure-of-behavioral-intentions/
Let’s see if this puts PCT on the map.
Best
Rick
–
Richard S. Marken PhD
rsmarken@gmail.com
Yes, congratulations! Let us know of any response you receive from that.
*barb
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Andrew Nichols anicholslcsw@gmail.com wrote:
Andrew
Congrats, Rick.
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Richard Marken rsmarken@gmail.com wrote:
[From Rick Marken (2013.08.28.1500)]
For some reason, the journal Psychological Reports in which I published my latest paper “Making Inferences about Intention: Perceptual Control Theory as a Theory of Mind for Psychologists” has seen fit to put out a press release on it. I believe you can see it at:
http://www.amsci.com/finding-a-valid-measure-of-behavioral-intentions/
Let’s see if this puts PCT on the map.
Best
Rick
–
Richard S. Marken PhD
rsmarken@gmail.com
[From Rick Marken
(2013.08.28.1500)]
For some reason, the journal Psychological Reports in which I
published my latest paper “Making Inferences about Intention:
Perceptual Control Theory as a �Theory of Mind� for Psychologists”
has seen fit to put out a press release on it. I believe you can see it
at:
http://www.amsci.com/finding-a-valid-measure-of-behavioral-intentions/Let’s see if this puts PCT on the map.
Best
Rick
–
Richard S. Marken PhD
www.mindreadings.com
[From Dag Forssell (2013.08.28.1535)]
Rick, This is terrific. Can you tell us something about the journal?
I hope this press release is distributed far and wide.
There are services nowadays that merely post a release at a website,
counting on journalists to seek it out.
Regardless: Congratulations!!! 
Best, Dag
At 03:01 PM 8/28/2013, you wrote:
Yes, congratulations! Let us know of any response you receive from that.
*barb
Rick! This is stunning! And you are doing just exactly what you said you’d do in that recent discussion about “where do we go from here?”…(in addition to the course, of course).
I had already had just a few minutes to skim my “signed copy” of the article when you sent it a week ago, but now that I have this excellent news, and a press release to boot to add to my brag shelf for my friends’ accomplishments, I’ll make time to study your great 18-page coup!
Well done! Incidently, not for publication, but I think you should also take credit for the nice little spike in BCP book sales!
love,
Alice
Benchmark Publications Inc.
Bloomfield, NJ 07003 (for the record)
Keep them cards and letters coming, kid!
PS Just as I was despairing over the contents of chapter 9 in the Glasser book, I received the news that he had passed away “a few days ago.” It’s a very odd book, but maybe now there will be a little room to negotiate some fact-checking.
I have a phone meeting with Warren and his pal toward the end of the month. I’m going to try to get Allie invited to participate. She has expressed some interest in working with me on the book end of things.
A.
.
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Andrew Nichols anicholslcsw@gmail.com wrote:
Andrew
Congrats, Rick.
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Richard Marken rsmarken@gmail.com wrote:
[From Rick Marken (2013.08.28.1500)]
For some reason, the journal Psychological Reports in which I published my latest paper “Making Inferences about Intention: Perceptual Control Theory as a âTheory of Mindâ? for Psychologists” has seen fit to put out a press release on it. I believe you can see it at:
http://www.amsci.com/finding-a-valid-measure-of-behavioral-intentions/
Let’s see if this puts PCT on the map.
Best
Rick
–
Richard S. Marken PhD
[Martin Taylor 2013.08.28.23.09]
That’s very encouraging. It means that apart from agreeing to
publish, they took it seriously, which is quite a different thing!
Congratulations.
Martin
[From Rick Marken (2013.08.28.1500)]
For some reason, the journal Psychological Reports in
which I published my latest paper “Making Inferences about
Intention: Perceptual Control Theory as a “Theory of Mind” for
Psychologists” has seen fit to put out a press release on it. I
believe you can see it at:[http://www.amsci.com/finding-a-valid-measure-of-behavioral-intentions/](http://www.amsci.com/finding-a-valid-measure-of-behavioral-intentions/)
Let’s see if this puts PCT on the map.
Best
Rick
–
Richard S. Marken PhD rsmarken@gmail.com [www.mindreadings.com](http://www.mindreadings.com)
I wanted to take a moment to congratulate you more properly, Rick, and thank everyone once again for your continued work and online discussions. I’m reading most of your posts, and saving them all, and intend to go over them again as time allows.
And Rick’s press release, along with the additional book sales Alice mentioned, are both a timely nod to Dad, whose birthday happens to be tomorrow. He would be at once pleased and humbled by the attention, and by your successful efforts to pick up where he left off.
Best,
*barb
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Alice McElhone apmcelhone@aol.com wrote:
Rick! This is stunning! And you are doing just exactly what you said you’d do in that recent discussion about “where do we go from here?”…(in addition to the course, of course).
I had already had just a few minutes to skim my “signed copy” of the article when you sent it a week ago, but now that I have this excellent news, and a press release to boot to add to my brag shelf for my friends’ accomplishments, I’ll make time to study your great 18-page coup!
Well done! Incidently, not for publication, but I think you should also take credit for the nice little spike in BCP book sales!
love,
Alice
Benchmark Publications Inc.
Bloomfield, NJ 07003 (for the record)
Keep them cards and letters coming, kid!
PS Just as I was despairing over the contents of chapter 9 in the Glasser book, I received the news that he had passed away “a few days ago.” It’s a very odd book, but maybe now there will be a little room to negotiate some fact-checking.
I have a phone meeting with Warren and his pal toward the end of the month. I’m going to try to get Allie invited to participate. She has expressed some interest in working with me on the book end of things.
A.
.
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Yes, congratulations! Let us know of any response you receive from that.
*barb
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Andrew Nichols anicholslcsw@gmail.com wrote:
Andrew
Congrats, Rick.
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Richard Marken rsmarken@gmail.com wrote:
[From Rick Marken (2013.08.28.1500)]
For some reason, the journal Psychological Reports in which I published my latest paper “Making Inferences about Intention: Perceptual Control Theory as a Theory of Mind for Psychologists” has seen fit to put out a press release on it. I believe you can see it at:
http://www.amsci.com/finding-a-valid-measure-of-behavioral-intentions/
Let’s see if this puts PCT on the map.
Best
Rick
–
Richard S. Marken PhD
[From Rick Marken (2013.08.28.2120)]
Thanks to everyone for their kind words. I will answer Dag's question:
Dag Forssell (2013.08.28.1535)
Rick, This is terrific. Can you tell us something about the journal?
_Psychological Reports_ is a peer reviewer journal that is published
by the same company (Ammons Scientific) that publishes _Perceptual and
Motor Skills_, which happens to be the same journal that published the
two part monograph by Powers, Clark and McFarland entitled "A general
feedback theory of human behavior." I have published before in both
journals (my paper entitled "Taking Purpose into Account in
Experimental Psychology" was published earlier this year in
_Psychological Reports_ and my very first publication on PCT -- the
1980 "Cause of control movements in a tracking task" -- was published
in _Perceptual and Motor Skills_). Indeed, I have another paper coming
out soon in _Perceptual and Motor Skills_.Of course, I'll let you
know about it as soon as it comes out.
These are not "high impact" journals, where impact is measured by the
number of references in other papers to papers published in those
journals. But they are peer reviewed and reasonably well respected;
they have been around for a long time and the review process is as
good (or better) than it is in other more high impact journals. They
are an attractive journal option (after all the relevant higher impact
journals reject an article) because, as they say in the journal
description, "controversial material of scientific merit is welcomed".
The editor of _Psychological Reports_ has been particularly keen on my
last two papers: the one on "Taking Purpose into Account in
Experimental Psychology" and the present one on "Theory of Mind".
Indeed, I am now an Associate Editor (I forgot because I haven't done
any editing yet).
As far as how they handle the press releases, I have no idea. I would
imagine that they just put it up on the web and hope someone from the
press sees it. But I really don't know.
My aim is to publish these papers in as high impact a journal as
possible but it's tough to get PCT stuff published at all, let alone
in high impact journals. But I have published in high impact journals
- Psychological Science, Psychological Methods, Journal of
Experimental Psychology -- and some moderately high impact ones --
Review of General Psychology, Attention, Perception and Psychophysics,
and American Journal of Psychology. But I really would like to get one
into the really high impact ones: Psychological Review or Science, as
Bill did. But I think it's worth it to just keep trying to get this
stuff in front of people.
Best regards
Rick
I hope this press release is distributed far and wide.
There are services nowadays that merely post a release at a website, counting on journalists to seek it out.Regardless: Congratulations!!!
Best, Dag
At 03:01 PM 8/28/2013, you wrote:
[From Rick Marken (2013.08.28.1500)]
For some reason, the journal Psychological Reports in which I published my latest paper "Making Inferences about Intention: Perceptual Control Theory as a �Theory of Mind� for Psychologists" has seen fit to put out a press release on it. I believe you can see it at:
http://www.amsci.com/finding-a-valid-measure-of-behavioral-intentions/
Let's see if this puts PCT on the map.
Best
Rick
--
Richard S. Marken PhD
rsmarken@gmail.com
www.mindreadings.com
--
Richard S. Marken PhD
rsmarken@gmail.com
www.mindreadings.com
[From Fred Nickols (2013.08.29.0546 EDT)]
Congratulations, Rick. Let’s hope it does you and PCT some good. In the meantime, you’d better be nice to Stephanie Isbell.
Fred Nickols
From: Richard Marken [mailto:rsmarken@GMAIL.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 6:02 PM
To: CSGNET@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU
Subject: Press Release
[From Rick Marken (2013.08.28.1500)]
For some reason, the journal Psychological Reports in which I published my latest paper “Making Inferences about Intention: Perceptual Control Theory as a “Theory of Mind” for Psychologists” has seen fit to put out a press release on it. I believe you can see it at:
http://www.amsci.com/finding-a-valid-measure-of-behavioral-intentions/
Let’s see if this puts PCT on the map.
Best
Rick
–
Richard S. Marken PhD
rsmarken@gmail.com
www.mindreadings.com
Hi Rick,
At the recent “mini-conference” in Boulder, thanks to Greg Williams, we handed out copies of Closed Loop Winter 1994, Volume 4, Number 1. I made the copies from an original given to me by Bill, in which on page 1 in his typical squiggly scrawl, he had written a name. I showed that to someone there…I was too flummoxed by the circumstances to remember who it was, but thanks, whoever you were/are for suggesting I find out who belonged to the name. The point is, the name is R. Brooks Hanson, Rick. He is Deputy Editor of Physical Sciences at AAAS. Maybe a target for your next paper?
Alice
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Marken rsmarken@GMAIL.COM
To: CSGNET CSGNET@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU
Sent: Thu, Aug 29, 2013 12:19 am
Subject: Re: Press Release
`
[From Rick Marken (2013.08.28.2120)]
Thanks to everyone for their kind words. I will answer Dag's question:
> Dag Forssell (2013.08.28.1535)
>
> Rick, This is terrific. Can you tell us something about the journal?
_Psychological Reports_ is a peer reviewer journal that is published
by the same company (Ammons Scientific) that publishes _Perceptual and
Motor Skills_, which happens to be the same journal that published the
two part monograph by Powers, Clark and McFarland entitled "A general
feedback theory of human behavior." I have published before in both
journals (my paper entitled "Taking Purpose into Account in
Experimental Psychology" was published earlier this year in
_Psychological Reports_ and my very first publication on PCT -- the
1980 "Cause of control movements in a tracking task" -- was published
in _Perceptual and Motor Skills_). Indeed, I have another paper coming
out soon in _Perceptual and Motor Skills_.Of course, I'll let you
know about it as soon as it comes out.
These are not "high impact" journals, where impact is measured by the
number of references in other papers to papers published in those
journals. But they are peer reviewed and reasonably well respected;
they have been around for a long time and the review process is as
good (or better) than it is in other more high impact journals. They
are an attractive journal option (after all the relevant higher impact
journals reject an article) because, as they say in the journal
description, "controversial material of scientific merit is welcomed".
The editor of _Psychological Reports_ has been particularly keen on my
last two papers: the one on "Taking Purpose into Account in
Experimental Psychology" and the present one on "Theory of Mind".
Indeed, I am now an Associate Editor (I forgot because I haven't done
any editing yet).
As far as how they handle the press releases, I have no idea. I would
imagine that they just put it up on the web and hope someone from the
press sees it. But I really don't know.
My aim is to publish these papers in as high impact a journal as
possible but it's tough to get PCT stuff published at all, let alone
in high impact journals. But I have published in high impact journals
- Psychological Science, Psychological Methods, Journal of
Experimental Psychology -- and some moderately high impact ones --
Review of General Psychology, Attention, Perception and Psychophysics,
and American Journal of Psychology. But I really would like to get one
into the really high impact ones: Psychological Review or Science, as
Bill did. But I think it's worth it to just keep trying to get this
stuff in front of people.
Best regards
Rick
>
> I hope this press release is distributed far and wide.
> There are services nowadays that merely post a release at a website, counting on journalists to seek it out.
>
> Regardless: Congratulations!!! :)
>
> Best, Dag
>
>
> At 03:01 PM 8/28/2013, you wrote:
>
> [From Rick Marken (2013.08.28.1500)]
>
> For some reason, the journal Psychological Reports in which I published my latest paper "Making Inferences about Intention: Perceptual Control Theory as a âTheory of Mindâ? for Psychologists" has seen fit to put out a press release on it. I believe you can see it at:
>
> [http://www.amsci.com/finding-a-valid-measure-of-behavioral-intentions/](http://www.amsci.com/finding-a-valid-measure-of-behavioral-intentions/)
>
> Let's see if this puts PCT on the map.
>
> Best
>
> Rick
> --
> Richard S. Marken PhD
> rsmarken@gmail.com
> [www.mindreadings.com](http://www.mindreadings.com)
-- Richard S. Marken PhD
rsmarken@gmail.com
[www.mindreadings.com](http://www.mindreadings.com)
`
[From Rick Marken (2013.08.31.1045)]
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Alice McElhone apmcelhone@aol.com wrote:
Hi Alice
Hi Rick,
At the recent “mini-conference” in Boulder, thanks to Greg Williams, we handed out copies of Closed Loop Winter 1994, Volume 4, Number 1. I made the copies from an original given to me by Bill, in which on page 1 in his typical squiggly scrawl, he had written a name. I showed that to someone there…I was too flummoxed by the circumstances to remember who it was, but thanks, whoever you were/are for suggesting I find out who belonged to the name. The point is, the name is R. Brooks Hanson, Rick. He is Deputy Editor of Physical Sciences at AAAS. Maybe a target for your next paper?
It would be great if I could get something published in Science but my impression is that nowadays they will only publish psychological research if it is neuropsychological and I don’t have any brain imaging equipment in my basement. I don’t even have a basement;-)
Best
Rick
Alice
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Marken rsmarken@GMAIL.COM
To: CSGNET CSGNET@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU
Sent: Thu, Aug 29, 2013 12:19 am
Subject: Re: Press Release
Let’s see if this puts PCT on the map.
Best
Rick
Richard S. Marken PhD
rsmarken@gmail.com
www.mindreadings.com– Richard S. Marken PhD
rsmarken@gmail.com
www.mindreadings.com
` [From Rick Marken (2013.08.28.2120)] Thanks to everyone for their kind words. I will answer Dag's question: > Dag Forssell (2013.08.28.1535) > > Rick, This is terrific. Can you tell us something about the journal? _Psychological Reports_ is a peer reviewer journal that is published by the same company (Ammons Scientific) that publishes _Perceptual and Motor Skills_, which happens to be the same journal that published the two part monograph by Powers, Clark and McFarland entitled "A general feedback theory of human behavior." I have published before in both journals (my paper entitled "Taking Purpose into Account in Experimental Psychology" was published earlier this year in _Psychological Reports_ and my very first publication on PCT -- the 1980 "Cause of control movements in a tracking task" -- was published in _Perceptual and Motor Skills_). Indeed, I have another paper coming out soon in _Perceptual and Motor Skills_.Of course, I'll let you know about it as soon as it comes out. These are not "high impact" journals, where impact is measured by the number of references in other papers to papers published in those journals. But they are peer reviewed and reasonably well respected; they have been around for a long time and the review process is as good (or better) than it is in other more high impact journals. They are an attractive journal option (after all the relevant higher impact journals reject an article) because, as they say in the journal description, "controversial material of scientific merit is welcomed". The editor of _Psychological Reports_ has been particularly keen on my last two papers: the one on "Taking Purpose into Account in Experimental Psychology" and the present one on "Theory of Mind". Indeed, I am now an Associate Editor (I forgot because I haven't done any editing yet). As far as how they handle the press releases, I have no idea. I would imagine that they just put it up on the web and hope someone from the press sees it. But I really don't know. My aim is to publish these papers in as high impact a journal as possible but it's tough to get PCT stuff published at all, let alone in high impact journals. But I have published in high impact journals - Psychological Science, Psychological Methods, Journal of Experimental Psychology -- and some moderately high impact ones -- Review of General Psychology, Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, and American Journal of Psychology. But I really would like to get one into the really high impact ones: Psychological Review or Science, as Bill did. But I think it's worth it to just keep trying to get this stuff in front of people. Best regards Rick > > I hope this press release is distributed far and wide. > There are services nowadays that merely post a release at a website, counting on journalists to seek it out. > > Regardless: Congratulations!!! :) > > Best, Dag > > > At 03:01 PM 8/28/2013, you wrote: > > [From Rick Marken (2013.08.28.1500)] > > For some reason, the journal Psychological Reports in which I published my latest paper "Making Inferences about Intention: Perceptual Control Theory as a Theory of Mind for Psychologists" has seen fit to put out a press release on it. I believe you can see it at: > > [http://www.amsci.com/finding-a-valid-measure-of-behavioral-intentions/](http://www.amsci.com/finding-a-valid-measure-of-behavioral-intentions/)`
–
Richard S. Marken PhD
rsmarken@gmail.com
www.mindreadings.com