Title:
Talking to strangers : what we should know about the people we don't know / Malcolm Gladwell.
Format:
Book
Author:
Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963- author.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
Description:
xii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary:
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.
Availability:
2 (of 9)
Current Holds:
0
Subjects:
Psychology, Applied.
Strangers.
Conduct of life -- Miscellanea.
Interpersonal relations -- Miscellanea.
Trust.
Informational works.
ISBN:
0316478520
9780316478526
Call Number:
302 GLA 2019