TY - BOOK AU - Gladwell, Malcolm,|eauthor TI - Talking to strangers: what we should know about the people we don't know SN - 9780316478526 AV - 302 G54t c2019 PY - 2019/// CY - New York, New York PB - Little, Brown and Co. KW - Conduct of life KW - Miscellanea KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Trust N1 - 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 ER -