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The CDC is talking about the overall context for the disease — how the introduction and growth of an addictive drug can so change the environment of a city that it can cause a disease to tip.†
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These three agents of change I call the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, and the Power of Context.†
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The Power of Context says that human beings are a lot more sensitive to their environment than they may seem.
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context = situation or setting
The three rules of the Tipping Point — the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, the Power of Context — offer a way of making sense of epidemics.†
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That is really the basic question here, because that's the basic context in which all persuasion takes place.†
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It is interesting, in this context, to think back on the experiment with the nodding and the headphones.†
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FOUR The Power of Context (Part One) BERN1E GOETZ AND THE RISE AND FALL OF NEW YORK CITY CRIME On December 22, 1984, the Saturday before Christmas, Bernhard Goetz left his apartment in Manhattan's Greenwich Village and walked to the IRT subway station at Fourteenth Street and Seventh Avenue.†
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The answer lies in the third of the principles of epidemic transmission, the Power of Context.†
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But the subject of this chapter — the Power of Context — is no less important than the first two.†
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But the lesson of the Power of Context is that we are more than just sensitive to changes in context.†
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But the lesson of the Power of Context is that we are more than just sensitive to changes in context.†
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in context = with consideration of surrounding setting and conditions
And the kinds of contextual changes that are capable of tipping an epidemic are very different than we might ordinarily suspect.†
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contextual = related to the setting or situation in which something occurs
Broken Windows theory and the Power of Context are one and the same.†
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But what do Broken Windows and the Power of Context suggest?†
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The Power of Context is an environmental argument.†
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It says that behavior is a function of social context.†
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But the Power of Context says that what really matters is little things.†
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The Power of Context says that the showdown on the subway between Bernie Goetz and those four youths had very little to do, in the end, with the tangled psychological pathology of Goetz, and very little as well to do with the background and poverty of the four youths who accosted him, and everything to do with the message sent by the graffiti on the walls and the disorder at the turnstiles.†
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The Power of Context says you don't have to solve the big problems to solve crime.†
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This is what I meant when I called the Power of Context a radical theory.†
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The essence of the Power of Context is that the same thing is true for certain kinds of environments — that in ways that we don't necessarily appreciate, our inner states are the result of our outer circumstances.†
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Psychologists call this tendency the Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE), which is a fancy way of saying that when it comes to interpreting other people's behavior, human beings invariably make the mistake of overestimating the importance of fundamental character traits and underestimating the importance of the situation and context.†
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We will always reach for a "dispositional" explanation for events, as opposed to a contextual explanation.†
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contextual = related to the setting or situation in which something occurs
We do this because, like vervets, we are a lot more attuned to personal cues than contextual cues.†
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When they are away from their families — in different contexts — older siblings are no more likely to be domineering and younger siblings no more likely to be rebellious than anyone else.†
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contexts = settings or situations in which things occur
Character is more like a bundle of habits and tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent, at certain times, on circumstance and context.†
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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.†
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"It is hard to think of a context in which norms concerning helping those in distress are more salient than for a person thinking about the Good Samaritan, and yet it did not significantly increase helping behavior," Darley and Batson concluded.†
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What this study is suggesting, in other words, is that the convictions of your heart and the actual contents of your thoughts are less important, in the end, in guiding your actions than the immediate context of your behavior.†
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But we need to remember that small changes in context can be just as important in tipping epidemics, even though that fact appears to violate some of our most deeply held assumptions about human nature.†
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in context = with consideration of surrounding setting and conditions
For a crime to be committed, something extra, something additional, has to happen to tip a troubled person toward violence, and what the Power of Context is saying is that those Tipping Points may be as simple and trivial as everyday signs of disorder like graffiti and fare-beating.†
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Once you understand that context matters, however, that specific and relatively small elements in the environment can serve as Tipping Points, that defeatism is turned upside down.†
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But in reality it is no more than an obvious and commonsensical extension of the Power of Context, because it says simply that children are powerfully shaped by their external environment, that the features of our immediate social and physical world — the streets we walk down, the people we encounter — play a huge role in shaping who we are and how we act.†
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The Power of Context (Part Two.)†
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The success of Ya-Ya is a tribute to the Power of Context.†
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More specifically, it is testimony to the power of one specific aspect of context, which is the critical role that groups play in social epidemics.†
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It's called the Rule of 150, and it is a fascinating example of the strange and unexpected ways in which context affects the course of social epidemics.†
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The Rule of 150 suggests that the size of a group is another one of those subtle contextual factors that can make a big difference.
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contextual = related to the setting or situation in which something occurs
In this section of the book, I'd like to look at less straightforward problems, and see how the idea of Mavens and Connectors and Stickiness and Context — either singly or in combination — helps to explain them.†
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In 1945, in rural Maine, at a time when virtually every family had a son or relative involved in the war effort, the only way to make sense of a story like that was to fit it into the context of the war.†
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That's all he had to say, because the context for his act had already been created by R. In the Ebeye epidemic, H. was the Tipping Person, the Salesman, the one whose experience "overwrote" the experience of those who followed him.†
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She realized she needed a new context.†
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She changed the context of her message.†
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That no one responded to Kitty Genovese's screams sounded like an open-and-shut case of human indifference, until careful psychological testing demonstrated the powerful influence of context.†
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We are actually powerfully influenced by our surroundings, our immediate context, and the personalities of those around us.†
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(1) (context)
the setting or situation in which something occurs
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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