These stages are: precontemplation (unaware that a problem exists), contemplation (awareness that the current situation, including one's own behavior, needs to change), preparation (planning steps to make the behavioral change), action (engaging in the new desirable behavior), and maintenance (reinforcing the new behavior to prevent relapse).
Alternatively, it is possible that those with higher education did not actually reduce breeding sites around their homes any more than others, but they reported this due to social desirability bias, for example, the knowledge that this is considered a desirable behavior by others.
Some guides said praise encouraged desirable behavior, like buckling a seat belt or cleaning one's room.
Everyone agrees that it is wise to present abstinence as a desirable behavior for students.
So shareholders are already voting for desirable behavior, and companies are instituting it.
Ah, well, skillful application of flattery is just another way of describing socially desirable behavior.
Simulation results confirm the desirable behavior of the arising closed-loop system.
It suggests that drug treatment can be used in combination with other psychotherapy, such as the behaviorist techniques, which reinforce desirable behavior.
This phenomenon, called social proof, can have powerful effects on people's behavior, and is especially influential when the desirable behavior is ambiguous — such as with cyber hygiene.
Generally, these ontologies are included in rules allowing to express the desirable behavior according to business rules or users' preferences.
Also, the presence of sound-absorbing material partially retains the desirable behavior of the dissipative mufflers at higher frequencies.
