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  1. Malcolm Gladwell _ The Tipping Point: How Little

    Emotion is contagious.
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  2. Malcolm Gladwell _ The Tipping Point: How Little

    To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.
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  3. Malcolm Gladwell _ The Tipping Point: How Little

    The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.
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  4. Malcolm Gladwell _ The Tipping Point: How Little

    Minor, seemingly insignificant quality-of-life crimes, they said, were Tipping Points for violent crime.
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  5. Malcolm Gladwell _ The Tipping Point: How Little

    In recent years, for example, there has been much interest in the idea that one of the most fundamental factors in explaining personality is birth order: older siblings are domineering and conservative, younger siblings more creative and rebellious. When psychologists actually try to verify this claim, however, their answers sound like the Hartshorne and May conclusions. We do reflect the influences of birth order but, as the psychologist Judith Harris points out in The Nurture Assumption, only around our families. 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. The birth order myth is an example of the FAE in action.
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  6. Malcolm Gladwell _ The Tipping Point: How Little

    There isn't one tight little circle of cheaters and one tight little circle of honest students. Some kids cheat at home but not at school; some kids cheat at school but not at home. Whether or not a child cheated on, say, the word completion test was not an iron-clad predictor of whether he or she would cheat on, say, the underlining A's part of the speed test. If you gave the same group of kids the same test, under the same circumstances six months apart, Hartshorne and May found, the same kids would cheat in the same ways in both cases. But once you changed any of those variables-the material on the test, or the situation in which it was administered-the kinds of cheating would change as well.
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  7. Malcolm Gladwell _ The Tipping Point: How Little

    Gosh darn it," Gau said, "if you don't try, you'll never succeed." 10.
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  8. Malcolm Gladwell _ The Tipping Point: How Little

    To look closely at complex behaviors like smoking or suicide or crime is to appreciate how suggestible we are in the face of what we see and hear, and how acutely sensitive we are to even the smallest details of everyday life. That's why social change is so volatile and so often inexplicable, because it is the nature of all of us to be volatile and inexplicable.
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  9. Malcolm Gladwell _ The Tipping Point: How Little

    So what does correlate with brain size? The answer, Dunbar argues, is group size. If you look at any species of primate-at every variety of monkey and ape-the larger their neocortex is, the larger the average size of the groups they live with.
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  10. Malcolm Gladwell _ The Tipping Point: How Little

    My social circle is, in reality, not a circle. It is a pyramid. And at the top of the pyramid is a single person-Jacob-who is responsible for an overwhelming majority of the relationships that constitute my life."
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  11. Malcolm Gladwell _ The Tipping Point: How Little

    In the end, Tipping Points are the reaffirmation of the potential for change and the power of intelligent action.
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  12. Malcolm Gladwell _ The Tipping Point: How Little

    Broken Windows theory and the Power of Context are one and the same. They are both based on the premise that an epidemic can be reversed, can be tipped, by tinkering with the smallest details of the immediate environment.
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