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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.

Publication Info. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
©2019

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Edition First edition.
Description xii, 386 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Occupation/field of activity group: occ Journalists
Gender group: gdr Men
National/regional group: nat New Yorkers (New York State)
Physical Medium regular print
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-379) and index.
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
Contents 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. Queen of Cuba ; Holy fool ; Case study : The boy in the shower -- Part III. Transparency. 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.
Language In English.
Subject Psychology, Applied.
Psychology, Applied.
Strangers.
Strangers.
Threat (Psychology)
Threat (Psychology)
Conduct of life -- Miscellanea.
Conduct of life.
Genre/Form Trivia and miscellanea.
Subject Interpersonal relations -- Miscellanea.
Interpersonal relations -- Miscellanea.
Trust.
Trust.
Interpersonal relations.
Genre/Form Informational works.
Added Title What we should know about the people we don't know
What we should know about the people we do not know
ISBN 9780316478526 (hardback)
0316478520 (hardback)
0316535575 (large print)
9780316535571 (large print)