| Edition |
First Back Bay trade paperback edition. |
| Description |
xviii, 397 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"With a new afterword by the author"--Cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-389) and index. |
| Summary |
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 |
| Contents |
Introduction : "Step out of the car!" -- Part I. Spies and diplomats : two puzzles. Fidel Castro's revenge ; Getting to know der Führer -- Part II. Default to truth. The queen of Cuba ; The holy fool ; Case study : The boy in the shower -- Part III. Transparency. The Friends fallacy ; A (short) explanation of the Amanda Knox case ; Case study : The fraternity party -- Part IV. Lessons. KSM : what happens when the stranger is a terrorist? -- Part V. Coupling. Sylvia Plath ; Case study : The Kansas City experiments ; Sandra Bland. |
| Subject |
Psychology, Applied.
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Strangers.
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Threat (Psychology)
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Conduct of life -- Miscellanea.
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Interpersonal relations -- Miscellanea.
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Trust.
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Conduct of life. (OCoLC)fst00874563
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Interpersonal relations. (OCoLC)fst00977397
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Psychology, Applied. (OCoLC)fst01081562
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Strangers. (OCoLC)fst01134317
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Threat (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst01150299
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Trust. (OCoLC)fst01158174
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| Genre/Form |
Informational works. (OCoLC)fst01919930
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Trivia and miscellanea. (OCoLC)fst01921748
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Informational works.
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| Added Title |
What we should know about the people we don't know |
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What we should know about the people we do not know |
| ISBN |
0316299227 (paperback) |
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9780316299220 (paperback) |
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