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Gladwell, Malcolm.
Talking to strangers :
what we should know about the people we don't know /
Malcolm Gladwell.
First edition.
New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
2019.
xii, 386 pages :
illustrations ;
22 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Spurred by the 2015 death of African-American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, Gladwell 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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Psychology, Applied.
Strangers.
Conduct of life
Miscellanea.
Interpersonal relations
Miscellanea.
Trust.
Social psychology.
Informational works.