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

What we should know about the people we don't know (portion title)
What we should know about the people we do not know (other title)
Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963- (author.).

Summary:

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.

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  • ISBN: 9780316478526
  • ISBN: 0316478520
  • ISBN: 9780316536233
  • ISBN: 0316536237
  • ISBN: 9780316536240
  • ISBN: 0316536245
  • ISBN: 024135157X
  • ISBN: 9780241351574
  • ISBN: 9780241351567
  • Physical Description: xii, 386 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-379) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: "Step out of the car!" -- Part one: Spies and diplomats: two puzzles. Fidel Castro's revenge ; Getting to know der Führer -- Part two: Default to truth. The queen of Cuba ; The holy fool ; Case study: The boy in the shower -- Part three: Transparency. The Friends fallacy ; A (short) explanation of the Amanda Knox case ; Case study: The fraternity party -- Part four: Lessons. KSM: what happens when the stranger is a terrorist? -- Part five: Coupling. Sylvia Plath ; Case study: The Kansas City experiments ; Sandra Bland.

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Subject:
Psychology, Applied.
Strangers.
Threat (Psychology)
Conduct of life > Miscellanea.
Interpersonal relations > Miscellanea.
Trust.
Genre:
Informational works.
Trivia and miscellanea.

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