[n8] However insidious and demoralizing may be the actual experience of statelessness, its contemplation in advance seems unlikely to invoke serious misgiving, for none of us yet knows its ramifications.
Applying the Stage Theory of Health Behaviour/Transtheoretical Model [ 24], there seems to be evidence that the SMSes could play a beneficial role as a cue to advance people from the Contemplation and/or Preparation stage to the Action stage.
A tax bill needs to be carefully considered, available to the public for review and contemplation well in advance of a vote, and -- in a perfect world -- bipartisan.
You end up contemplating your own contemplation.
Receiving physician advice to quit contributed to participants' advancement from pre-contemplation to contemplation.
Terrifying as my Dad's state is, I think a clear-eyed contemplation of it for years in advance might be even more frightening.
People in the precontemplation and contemplation stage require information about the advances of a healthy lifestyle.
As a cerebral contemplation of ethnicity and its discontents, "Jimmy P". advances the boundaries of cinematic inquiry.
A study of people 65 and older, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, noted that filling out advance directives is a multistep process to which familiar stages of behavioral change apply: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance.
They say that there is no reason to apply five months in advance, let alone two, and that they are far more inclined to put a premium on thoughtfulness and contemplation than speed.
The two main conceptual advances offered by these findings are that there is an identifiable neural pattern associated with perception and contemplation of individual objects, and that part of the pattern is shared across participants.
