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

By: Gladwell, Malcolm [Author]Material type: Text

TextSeries: 1. Interpersonal relations 2. Social Psychology 3. Strangers 4. Threats 5. TrustPublication details: United States of America : Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group, c2019Description: ix, 386 pages : Illustration; 17 cmISBN: 978-0-316-46291-4Subject(s): SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGYLOC classification: GC HM 1106 G53 2013

Contents:

Part 1 : Spies and diplomats: two puzzles -- Part 2 : Default to truth -- Part 3 : Transparency -- Part 4 : Lessons -- Part 5 : Coupling.

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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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	NU Fairview SHS LRC	NU Fairview SHS LRC	Senior High School	General Circulation	GC HM 1106 G53 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	c.1	Available		NUFVSHS0000246

K to 12 Compliant.

Includes acknowledgements, notes and index.

Part 1 : Spies and diplomats: two puzzles -- Part 2 : Default to truth -- Part 3 : Transparency -- Part 4 : Lessons -- Part 5 : Coupling.

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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