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

By: Material type: TextTextEdition: First editionDescription: xii, 386 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780316478526
  • 0316478520
Other title:
  • What we should know about the people we don't know
  • What we should know about the people we do not know
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 302 23
LOC classification:
  • HM1111 .G53 2019
  • HHM1106 .G58 2019
Contents:
Introduction : "Step out of the car!" -- Part I. Spies and diplomats : two puzzles. Fidel Castro's revenge ; Getting to know der F�uhrer -- 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.
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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HF5381.B7786 2018 C1 The designing your life workbook : HF5381.B7786 2018 C2 The designing your life workbook : HF5549.5 E67 2021 Service Still Speaks: HHM1106.G58 2019 C1 Talking to strangers : HHM1106.G58 2019 C2 Talking to strangers : HHM1106.G58 2019 C3 Talking to strangers : HM1261.B87 2021 Pain to Purpose

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-379) and index.

Introduction : "Step out of the car!" -- Part I. Spies and diplomats : two puzzles. Fidel Castro's revenge ; Getting to know der F�uhrer -- 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.

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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