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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Gladwell, Malcolm
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| Publisher: |
Back Bay Books
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| Date: |
09/28/2021
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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In this treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, the author 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. The author uses a variety of examples from history and from headlines to illustrate that people size up the motivations, emotions, and trustworthiness of those they don't know both wrongly and with misplaced confidence
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