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

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

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 the...

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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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