The key for me on that particular point was to realize that I am neither patient nor impatient, but rather action-oriented.
As such, it is predicted that the goal of safer sex or condom use is not sufficient in explaining preparatory behaviors, but rather action-specific cognitions are important in explaining specific preparatory behaviors (cf. Abraham, Sheeran, & Johnston, 1998; Bryan et al., 2002).
"It refers not to actions that merely injure individual competitors, but rather to actions that harm the competitive process, a process that aims to bring consumers the benefits of lower prices, better products, and more efficient production methods".
Conditioned olfactory behaviors are thus not responsive in nature but, rather, are actions expressed for the sake of the sought-for reward and the attempted relief.
Sherman also said the Contagious Index isn't really for scoring individual pieces of content, but rather "aggregate actions — can a brand consistently maintain contagiousness or virality for their reach over time?" In addition to assigning brands a score out of 100, DigitasLBi also makes an effort to identify the kinds of strategies are working.
They asserted they were not protesting the doctrine of Scientology, but rather alleged actions of individual Scientologists.
Whatever the exact mechanism, our data show no deleterious effects but rather beneficial actions of a PPARα agonist on heart TAG accumulation in this model of DCM.
we found, in the model used, that fenofibrate had no adverse but rather favourable actions on DCM with mild reduction in TAG accumulation and fibrosis.
I don't just mean that it is heavy on battles and gunfights, but rather that action — what people do, as opposed to why they do it — is its primary, indeed obsessive concern.
