Talking to Strangers WHAT WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE PEOPLE WE DON'T KNOW

• Main Author: Gladwell, Malcolm 1963 (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Little, Brown and Company 2019
• Subjects: Psychology, Applied; Strangers; Threat (Psychology)
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• Physical Description: xii, 386 pages 21 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-379) and index
• ISBN: 9780316457453; 0316457450

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