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02061aam a2200409 i 4500 001 E12FBAA4B56E11ECAAE5E9575DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220406010018 008 210304t20212019||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 0316299227 020 $a 9780316299220 035 $a (OCoLC)1240412374 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Gladwell, Malcolm, $d 1963- 245 1 $a Talking to strangers : $b what we should know about the people we don't know / $c Malcolm Gladwell. 246 3 $a What we should know about the people we don't know. 246 3 $a What we should know about the people we do not know. 250 $a First Back Bay trade paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Back Bay Books, $c 2021. 300 $a xviii, 397 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 21 cm. 500 $a "With a new afterword by the author"--Cover. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-389) and index. 520 $a In this treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, the author 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. The author uses a variety of examples from history and from headlines to illustrate that people size up the motivations, emotions, and trustworthiness of those they don't know both wrongly and with misplaced confidence. 541 $d 20220118. 650 $a Interpersonal relations $v Miscellanea. 650 $a Threat (Psychology.) 650 $a Psychology, Applied. 650 $a Strangers. 650 $a Trust. 650 $a Conduct of life $v Miscellanea. 655 7 $a Trivia and miscellanea. 655 7 $a Informational works. 941 $a 3 952 $l FGPD194 $d 20240515010959.0 952 $l XEPE697 $d 20240130010518.0 952 $l KJPF566 $d 20221022012032.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E12FBAA4B56E11ECAAE5E9575DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search