Talking to strangers : what we should know about the people we don't know
Title:
Talking to strangers : what we should know about the people we don't know
ISBN:
9781549150333
Edition:
Unabridged.
Physical Description:
8 audio discs (approximately 8.5 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Compact discs.
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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.