Talking to strangers : what we should know about the people we don't know

Talking to strangers : what we should know about the people we don't know / Malcolm Gladwell.

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Psychology, Applied.
Strangers.
Threat (Psychology)
Conduct of life > Miscellanea.
Interpersonal relations > Miscellanea.
Trust.
Informational works.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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