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Talking to strangers, what we should know about the people we don't know, Malcolm Gladwell

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Talking to strangers, what we should know about the people we don't know, Malcolm Gladwell

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eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-389) and index

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Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Talking to strangers

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bibliography

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1240412374

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Malcolm Gladwell

Sub title

what we should know about the people we don't know

Summary

In this treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, the author 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. The author uses a variety of examples from history and from 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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