All 9 Uses of
context
in
Blink
- In order to "know" a couple, we feel as though we have to observe them over many weeks and months and see them in every state ... To make an accurate prediction about something as serious as the future of a marriage—indeed, to make a prediction of any sort—it seems that we would have to gather a lot of information and in as many different contexts as possible. But John Gottman has proven that we don't have to do that at all.
Chpt 1 *contexts = situations or settings
- "It's the same kind of paralysis through analysis you find in sports contexts," Schooler says.
Chpt 4contexts = the settings or situations in which things occur
- In the context of it, they didn't let people know there was a difference.†
Chpt 5
- We looked at him in the context of photography down to cartoon character kinds of things.†
Chpt 5
- In that context, then, Coca-Cola's error with New Coke becomes all the more egregious.†
Chpt 5
- The market testers assumed that they could simply play one of his songs or part of one of his songs for someone over the telephone or on the Internet and the response of listeners would serve as a reliable guide to what music buyers would feel about the song. Their thinking was that music lovers can thin-slice a new song in a matter of seconds, and there is nothing wrong with that idea in principle. But thin-slicing has to be done in context.
Chpt 5in context = with consideration of surrounding setting and conditions
- All of the people who warmed to Kenna had that kind of context.†
Chpt 5
- The blind sip test is the wrong context for thin-slicing Coke.†
Chpt 5
- He had been told nothing about the tribes involved; all identifying context had been edited out.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(context) the setting or situation in which something occurs