02793cam a2200337 i 4500 388409723 TxAuBib 20190916120000.0 190221s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2019020902 9780316478526 30.00 0316478520 30.00 eng rda TxAuBib rda Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963- Talking to strangers [BOOK] : what we should know about the people we don't know / Malcolm Gladwell. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019. xii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-379) and index. Introduction: "Step out of the car!" -- Part one: Spies and diplomats: two puzzles. Fidel Castro's revenge ; Getting to know der F©ơhrer -- Part two: Default to truth. The queen of Cuba ; The holy fool ; Case study: The boy in the shower -- Part three: Transparency. The Friends fallacy ; A (short) explanation of the Amanda Knox case ; Case study: The fraternity party -- Part four: Lessons. KSM: what happens when the stranger is a terrorist? -- Part five: Coupling. Sylvia Plath ; Case study: The Kansas City experiments ; Sandra Bland. How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland---throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don't know. And because we don't know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. Gladwell offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers--and why they often go wrong. Provided by publisher. 20190925. Strangers. Psychology, Applied. Trust. Interpersonal relations. Conduct of life Miscellanea. Trivia and miscellanea.