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                             %THEORY HUMAN RESPONSE 960118

     People  who try to control other people must work  in
terms of some theory of human response.   They act in ways
which  are based upon some theory of how other people will
respond  to  their  actions.    Their theory  may  not  be
conscious  or  articulated.  They may not  have  explained
their theory of response to anybody;  but yet in some  dim
way  they operate in terms of some set of expectations  of
how  people  will  respond  to their  attempts  to  be  in
control.

     At  a  naive level controllers may expect  others  to
just yield to their  efforts to be in control.   At a more
sophisticated level controllers may feel that they can win
in  a competition to be in control.   But there  are  even
more levels which are possible.

     Controllers  are  likely to be people  who  think  in
terms  of dichotomies:  right versus wrong,  moral  versus
immoral,  legal  versus  illegal,  conformal  versus  non-
conformal, proper versus improper, etc. They are likely to
expect  others  to respond in dichotomous  ways  to  their
efforts to be in control.   They  invite others to respond
in  dichotomous ways to their efforts to  be  in  control.
They find it hard to imagine how sophisticated people  can
be  in  responding  in transcendent  ways  to  dichotomous
attempts to be (or appear to be) in control.

     People  can  respond  to  controllers  with  a  whole
spectrum  of ways which are not clearly either  submission
or  rebellion;  not clearly yielding or opposition.   More
subtle  responses  are suggested by words such  as:   heal
dragging,   lack  of enthusiasm,   getting  sick,   having
accidents,  being confused,  being dim-witted,  generating
confusion, using mis-information, being misleading,  being
mildly  deceptive,   withholding information,   not  being
creative, lacking imagination, working slowly, being a bit
late, etc.

     See the next essay.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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