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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant - in the blink of an eye - that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while other are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work - in the office, in the classroom, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others?...Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology and displaying all of the brilliance that made The Tipping Point a classic, Blink changes the way you understand every decision you make. Never again will you think about thinking the same way. --from the cover notes of Blink. Back Bay Books, 2007. |
Malcolm GladwellAuthor Biography |
The Author's Web Page, the original New Yorker Articles, and Other Interesting Sites
Gladwell.com | The Archive | Wikipedia's Entry on Malcolm Gladwell | Malcolm Gladwell talks about what we can learn from spaghetti sauce
Reviews of Blink
The Skeptical Inquirer | Commentary | New Scientist | People Weekly | Time | Canadian Psychology
Resources by Chapter: Articles and Books at IUP and Elsewhere
Chapter 1: John Gottman, Thin Slicing, and Rapid Cognition - Books, Videos, and Articles
- Seeing at a Glance, Smelling in a Whiff: Rapid forms of perceptual decision making
- A two-factor model for predicting when a couple will divorce: Exploratory analyses using 14-year longitudinal data.
- Marital research in the 20th century and a research agenda for the 21st century.
- Dysfunctional marital conflict and everyday marital interaction
- Thin Slices of Behavior as Cues of Personality and Intelligence
- Love Lab: Putting Marriages Back Together [videorecording]. Call Number DVD 2799
- Mathematics of marriage: Dynamic nonlinear models. Call Number HQ728 .M328 2002
- Time-series analysis: a comprehensive introduction for social scientists. Call Number HA30.3 G67
- User's guide to the Gottman-Williams time-series analysis computer programs for social scientists. Call Number HA30.3 .W54 07
- What predicts divorce? The relationship between marital processes and marital outcomes. Call Number HQ734 .G7137 1994
Chapter 3: The Implicit Association Test
- Discrimination and the Implicit Association Test
- Understanding and Using the Implicit Association Test: II. Method Variables and Construct Validity
- Dissimulating anxiety in front of the Implicit Association Test (IAT)
- Is the Implicit Association Test immune to faking?
- Measuring Task-Switching Ability in the Implicit Association Test
- Wittenbrink and Schwarz, eds. Implicit Measures of Attitudes. Call Number HM1181 .I46 2007
Chapter 4: Paul Van Riper's Big Victory
- An Interview with Paul Van Riper, Frontline, Oct. 26, 2004
- Battle Plan Under Fire: The Immutable Nature of War
- Paul K. Van Riper (Wikipedia)
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