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Author:

Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963- author.

Title:

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

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

LittleBrown and Company,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xii, 386 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Subject:

Psychology, Applied.
Strangers.
Threat (Psychology)
Conduct of life--Miscellanea.
Interpersonal relations--Miscellanea.
Trust.
Strangers.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Communication.
Threat (Psychology)
Strangers.
Psychology, Applied.
Conduct of life.
Interpersonal relations.
Trust.
Interpersonal relations.
Children and strangers.
Trust.
Informational works.
Informational works.
Trivia and miscellanea.
Informational works.

Notes:

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

Contents:

Part V. Sandra Bland. 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.

Summary:

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

ISBN:

0316478520
9780316478526

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1107437182

LCCN:

2019935109

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames) — Copies: 12 — Kit notes: + CD + LP

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