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 them, figure out where they came fr...

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Hovedforfatter: Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963- (Author)
Format: Bog
Sprog:English
Udgivet: New York : Little, Brown and Company, ©2019.
Udgivelse:First edition.
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246 3 |a What we should know about the people we do not know 
250 |a First edition. 
260 |a New York :  |b Little, Brown and Company,  |c ©2019. 
300 |a xii, 386 pages :  |b illustrations, maps ;  |c 20 cm 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-379) and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction : "Step out of the car!" -- Part I. Spies and diplomats : two puzzles. Fidel Castro's revenge ; Getting to know der Führer -- Part II. Default to truth. The queen of Cuba ; The holy fool ; Case study : The boy in the shower -- Part III. Transparency. The Friends fallacy ; A (short) explanation of the Amanda Knox case ; Case study : The fraternity party -- Part IV. Lessons. KSM : what happens when the stranger is a terrorist? -- Part V. Coupling. Sylvia Plath ; Case study : The Kansas City experiments ; Sandra Bland. 
520 |a 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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650 7 |a Trust. 
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