Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell investigates the systematic errors we make when we try to understand people we don’t know. Beginning with the 2015 traffic stop that ended in the death of Sandra Bland, Gladwell builds a framework for understanding how and why these interactions so often go wrong. He examines cases involving Neville Chamberlain and Hitler, Bernie Madoff’s victims, the CIA’s failure to detect Soviet moles, and the science of deception detection, to argue that humans are not nearly as good at reading strangers as we think we are. We default to truth, assuming people are honest, and we are not equipped to detect the behaviour of truly skilled deceivers. A sobering, timely exploration of how misunderstanding shapes conflict.
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Talking to Strangers
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Malcolm Gladwell asks why we are so often wrong about the people we don’t know, and what the consequences of our misreadings can be.
