A moment later, he implored: "Do not be deceived by his momentary good behavior.
Although momentary acts or behaviors can lead to getting infected (or infecting someone else), socially-embedded and socially-meaningful patterns of behavior (such as trying to maintain respectability in the eyes either of non-user relatives or of "righteous dope fiends") involve long-term maintenance of safer (or riskier) behaviors.
This revised perspective suggests the importance of research on momentary influences on the behavior change process as a strategy to improve AUD treatment.
Although they might seem to provide momentary relief, these compulsive behaviors will only add to your suffering in the long run and make it considerably more difficult to grow and to improve your life.
Overall, EMA methodology offers particular promise as a set of tools useful for aptly characterizing momentary processes and cascades of behavior that result in high-level drinking and alcohol-related problems.
At NIAAA, research initiatives include funding opportunities, in conjunction with Collaborative Research on Addiction (CRAN), on the use of social media to address alcohol and other substance use and the use of ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to study mechanisms of behavior change in alcohol treatment.
As children, our emotions explode wildly, but most of us eventually learn to control our behavior by regulating those emotions, accepting momentary discomfort in exchange for meeting long term goals (i.e., resisting the impulse to punch your boss in the face or reveal how much you like someone on the first date).
Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) involves repeated sampling of individuals' behaviors and experiences in real-time, in the individuals' natural environment (see article by Arora in this issue).
The whole behavior in Figure 5a implies ac current momentary (below 0.1 s) charging/discharging, with the observed decrease in capacitance come from dielectric dispersion by interfacial polarization.
A momentary decision from leaders has impacted the thinking and behavior of generations of men and women.
