A mate of mine recently had a telephone discussion with John LaValle. During the discussion, the concept of 'trust' came up.

I'm paraphrasing here - John remarked that it's not that we 'trust' or don't - it's more that we can trust someone to...[insert behaviour in a given contextual frame]...

Example...

I can trust most Labour cabinet ministers to conceal important facts about donations from me.

Do you see?

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So this got me thinking about the structure of 'LIKING'

Is it the same I wonder?

Do you either like a person or not?

Or do you DO liking in a given contextual frame?


How do you DO liking?

How do you know it's liking?

What's the scope of your liking...and under what criteria would you re-evaluate or 'not do liking'

How do you sort, compare and contrast rapport with liking.

I'd be really fascinated to read any intelligent insight into the structure of liking.

James.