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Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
- Then Ambady compared those snap judgments of teacher effectiveness with evaluations of those same professors made by their students after a full semester of classes, and she found that they were also essentially the same.†
Chpt Intr. *essentially = basically (in all important respects; or relating to the basic nature of something)
- But, by working through each action-unit combination, Ekman and Friesen identified about three thousand that did seem to mean something, until they had catalogued the essential repertoire of human facial displays of emotion.†
Chpt 6essential = necessary or important or relating to the basic nature of something
- Happiness, for instance, is essentially A.U. six and twelve—contracting the muscles that raise the cheek (orbicularis oculi, pars orbitalis) in combination with the zygomatic major, which pulls up the corners of the lips.†
Chpt 6essentially = basically (in all important respects; or relating to the basic nature of something)
Definition:
necessary or important; or a basic and defining part of something