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Talking to strangers : what we should know about the people we don't know / Malcolm Gladwell.

by Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963- author.

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New York, New York : Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Incorporated, [2019]

Psychology, Applied.

Threat (Psychology)

Conduct of life -- Miscellanea.

Interpersonal relations -- Miscellanea.

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication.

Conduct of life.

Interpersonal relations.

9780316478526 (hardcover)

0316478520 (hardcover)

xii, 386 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Introduction: -- "Step out of the car!" -- Part I. Spies and diplomats: two puzzles: -- Fidel Castro's revenge -- Getting to know der Führer -- Part II. Default to truth: -- The Queen of Cuba -- The holy fool -- Case study: -- The boy in the shower -- Part III. Transparency: -- The Friends fallacy -- A (Short) explanation of the Amanda Knox case -- Case study: -- The fraternity party -- Part IV. Lessons: -- KSM: what happens when the stranger is a terrorist? -- Part V. Coupling: -- Sylvia Plath -- Case study: -- The Kansas City experiments -- Sandra Bland.

Informational works.

In this thoughtful treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African-American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, New Yorker writer Gladwell (The Tipping Point) aims to figure out the strategies people use to assess strangers - to "analyze, critique them, figure out where they came from, figure out how to fix them" - in other words: to understand how to balance trust and safety. He uses a variety of examples from history and recent headlines to illustrate that people size up the motivations, emotions, and trustworthiness of those they don't know both wrongly and with misplaced confidence. (Publisher)

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