All 8 Uses of
implication
in
The Tipping Point
- This idea of the importance of stickiness in tipping has enormous implications for the way we regard social epidemics as well.†
Chpt 1implications = results or consequences; or things suggested indirectly; or things that can be concluded
- The second implication of these studies is that nonverbal cues are as or more important than verbal cues.†
Chpt 2 *implication = something suggested indirectly; or something that can be concluded; or a result
- The third — and perhaps most important — implication of these studies is that persuasion often works in ways that we do not appreciate.†
Chpt 2
- There are enormous implications in Levanthal's fear experiments and Wunderman's work for Columbia Records for the question of how to start and tip social epidemics.†
Chpt 3implications = results or consequences; or things suggested indirectly; or things that can be concluded
- The implications of those two studies go to the heart of the Law of the Few, because they suggest that what we think of as inner states — preferences and emotions — are actually powerfully and imperceptibly influenced by seemingly inconsequential personal influences, by a newscaster we watch for a few minutes a day or by someone we sit next to, in silence, in a two-minute experiment.†
Chpt 4
- This was an experiment very much in the tradition of the FAE, and it is an important demonstration of how the Power of Context has implications for the way we think about social epidemics of all kinds, not just violent crime.†
Chpt 4
- The implications of this idea are enormous.†
Chpt 4
- The second, even more intriguing implication of this, is that nicotine addiction isn't a linear phenomenon.†
Chpt 7implication = something suggested indirectly; or something that can be concluded; or a result
Definitions:
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(1)
(implication as in: the implication is that...) Something that follows from something else.The thing that follows could be:
- something suggested indirectly (not said directly)
- something that can be concluded (often a logical consequence)
- something that results from something else
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(2)
(implication as in: Her implication in the crime) involvement in or the suggestion that someone was involved in something -- especially a crime