Conversation with a Stranger: Why We Misjudge People and Trust Liars
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Conversation with a Stranger: Why We Misjudge People and Trust Liars
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Imagine yourself in the shoes of a judge who has to decide whether to release a suspect on bail. You are offered either to simply read the dry facts of the suspect's background or to meet and talk to him in person, look him in the eye and see how he reacts. Many of us will choose the second option - after all, we often find information obtained through personal contact to be extraordinarily valuable. But this, according to Malcolm Gladwell, is the reason for fatal mistakes, personal tragedies, wrong judicial decisions and even catastrophes on a global scale. A spy who worked for years in the Pentagon office passing data to Cuban intelligence. Politicians who failed to recognize Hitler's double game, leading the world to disaster. Police officers who shoot innocent people simply because their reactions seem suspicious to them. Parents who can't recognize a sports doctor as a rapist molesting their children. The author analyzes all these stories and comes to shocking conclusions. It turns out that we are unable to recognize a liar, even when we communicate with him for a long time. And all our usual ideas about the suspicious behavior of people, their facial expressions, gestures, intonations turn out to be fundamentally wrong. Malcolm Gladwell offers us an intellectual adventure through the dark side of human nature. You will see that our perception of strangers almost always does not coincide with reality, and misperception of their behavior can have disastrous consequences.
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