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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
by Malcolm Gladwell
From the title, one could be forgiven for thinking that this is a book on how to talk to strangers. It's not. This is not surprising at all to anyone who has read Malcolm Gladwell.
In Talking to Strangers, he does a great job of outlining the biases inherent in our interactions with strangers. He does a great job of explaining how we tend to default to truth. Why doing so makes us more prone to misreading strangers, and why not doing so, believe it or not, makes us less human. He does something similar with transparency, explaining why human beings may not be as transparent as we think. Finally, he delves into the nuances of coupling with a special focus on crime.
In my opinion, coupling as discussed here does not tie well with the topic of talking to strangers. However, Gladwell does a great job of using this "theory" to bring the story of Sandra Bland full circle.
In Talking to Strangers, he does a great job of outlining the biases inherent in our interactions with strangers. He does a great job of explaining how we tend to default to truth. Why doing so makes us more prone to misreading strangers, and why not doing so, believe it or not, makes us less human. He does something similar with transparency, explaining why human beings may not be as transparent as we think. Finally, he delves into the nuances of coupling with a special focus on crime.
In my opinion, coupling as discussed here does not tie well with the topic of talking to strangers. However, Gladwell does a great job of using this "theory" to bring the story of Sandra Bland full circle.