Evaluate the collective function of references cited together in a given text segment.
Classify their combined role into one of the following categories: 'method', 'background', or 'result'.

Text:Holistic thinkers tend to see the “whole picture” rather than the components constituting
it, while analytic thinkers focus more on the components in lieu of the whole context (Monga and John, 2008; Nisbett et al., 2001).
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