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

Talking to strangers : what we should know about the people we don't know / Malcolm Gladwell.
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ISBN 9780241351574 (paperback)
Name Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963- author.
Title Talking to strangers : what we should know about the people we don't know / Malcolm Gladwell.
Published London : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2019.
©2019
Description xii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Notes Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-379) and index.
Contents Introduction: "Step out of the car!" -- Part one: Spies and diplomats: two puzzles. Fidel Castro's revenge ; Getting to know der Führer -- Part two: Default to truth. The queen of Cuba ; The holy fool ; Case study: The boy in the shower -- Part three: Transparency. The Friends fallacy ; A (short) explanation of the Amanda Knox case ; Case study: The fraternity party -- Part four: Lessons. KSM: what happens when the stranger is a terrorist? -- Part five: Coupling. Sylvia Plath ; Case study: The Kansas City experiments ; Sandra Bland.
Summary The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger's motives? Through a series of encounters and misunderstandings - from history, psychology and infamous legal cases - Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual adventure into the darker side of human nature, where strangers are never simple and misreading them can have disastrous consequences. No one challenges our shared assumptions like Malcolm Gladwell. Here he uses stories of deceit and fatal errors to cast doubt on our strategies for dealing with the unknown, inviting us to rethink our thinking in these troubled times.
Subjects Social psychology
Strangers
Conduct of life -- Miscellanea
Interpersonal relations -- Miscellanea
Trust
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