Gladwell, Malcolm,

Talking to strangers : what we should know about the people we don't know / Malcolm Gladwell. - First edition. - xii, 386 pages : illustration, maps ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN: 9780316478526 0316478520

LCCN: 2019935109

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Psychology, Applied.
Strangers.
Conduct of life
Interpersonal relations
Trust.
Social psychology.

Dewey Class. No.: 302