Sentence examples for old behaviours from inspiring English sources

This offers one explanation as to why behavioural interventions typically yield short-term gains, which erode as old behaviours re-emerge (e.g., Jeffery et al., 1990).

When we're stressed or happy we're more likely to fall back on old behaviours, said Michelle Shiota.

With big brands poised to enter the legal market, now is not the time for lawyers to retrench into old behaviours.

In order to maintain progress and stop staff slipping back into old behaviours, we now collect data from our cleaning team for each floor so that we can target individual departments.

They're giving you the help, so the last thing on everybody's mind is going back to your old behaviours.

"I needed something that would occupy my time and stop me falling back into old behaviours and old habits," he says, "and I would use it as a constructive tool to keep myself focused".

Yes, a disruptive event like moving home or office provides a window of opportunity to change behaviour, but at the same time, the weeks following the move are a "window of opportunity to relapse" to the old behaviour.

"As with all experimental treatments, there is the question of a novelty effect, of drivers eventually returning to their old behaviour once they've 'figured out' the trick," says Vanderbilt.

How do I control the situation?" I've done a lot of therapy which I don't think Trump's done but I understand sometimes I can dominate a circumstance simply because it's old behaviour from my childhood, where it's like, you're gonna make fun of me, so I better make fun of myself first.

It's standard 12-year-old behaviour.

It is just a new way of conceptualising an age-old behaviour," he says, "it is more like an eating disorder than, say, alcoholism".