| Edition |
First edition. |
| Descript |
xii, 386 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Nonfiction. |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-379) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Psychology, Applied.
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Strangers.
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Conduct of life -- Miscellanea.
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Interpersonal relations -- Miscellanea.
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Trust.
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Social psychology.
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| ISBN/ISSN |
0316478520 (hardcover) |
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9780316478526 (hardcover) |
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