- author: Malcolm Gladwell
- full title: Talking to Strangers - What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
- narrator: Malcolm Gladwell
- genre: science, psychology
- topics: #psychology, #casestudies
- publisher: Hachette Audio
- publish date: 10.09.2019
- timing: 8:42:40
My Rating of the Audiobook:
- content: 💙💙💙💙💙
- narration: 💙💙💙💙💙
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Excerpt from the book:
"In one iteration of his experiment, Levine divided his tapes in half: twenty-two liars and twenty-two truth-tellers. On average, the people he had watch all forty-four videos correctly identified the liars 56 percent of the time. Other psychologists have tried similar versions of the same experiment. The average for all of them? 54 percent. Just about everyone is terrible: police officers, judges, therapists—even CIA officers running big spy networks overseas. Everyone. Why?"My Thoughts:
Why can't we judge people that we don't know? The audiobook contains multiple case studies about misjudging people and deception. There are more examples, real-life events, from the history of how strangers intentionally or unintentionally deceived others. How we sometimes can't judge people if we don't know them well and know their story.
In this book, the author presents us with facts about Sandra Bland and her death in 2015. A police officer pulled Sandra over because she didn't signal her change of lanes. Three days later, she died in her prison cell. What happened? What went so wrong? Was it racism?
Author Malcolm Gladwell is also the narrator in this audiobook. Whenever possible, he included recordings of some events, interviews, etc.
