Talking to strangers : what we should know about the people we don't know /
Malcolm Gladwell.
- First edition.
- New York, New York : Little, Brown and Co., c2019.
- 386 pages: 21 cm
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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Conduct of life--Miscellanea. Interpersonal relations--Miscellanea. Trust.