%% apa:: Gladwell, M. (2019). _Talking to strangers: What we should know about the people we don’t know_ (First edition). Little, Brown and Company. %% # Talking to strangers: what we should know about the people we don't know --- Gladwell, M. (2019). _Talking to strangers: What we should know about the people we don’t know_ (First edition). Little, Brown and Company. ^apa --- ## Metadata title: Talking to strangers: what we should know about the people we don't know author:: Malcolm Gladwell cite-key:: gladwell2019TalkingStrangersWhat date_published:: 2019 Type: Book keywords:: [[Deception]], [[Truth-default theory]] ## Abstract 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 ^abstract --- ## Notes