Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. (Book Assignment) Plot page Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book on our ability to make decisions in split-second called “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking.” This book is outlined by the process in which that we can make accurate decisions by using what he calls “ Thin-Slicing.” Thin-Slicing is when thoughts are retrieved from our unconscious mind; We often come up with the right decision on the spot‚ but we’re usually misled my our
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2014 To Think or Not To Think‚ That is The Question “Judgment matters: it is what separates winners from losers” (260). Blink by Malcolm Gladwell is a book about understanding how we arrive at the judgments we make. There are two ways that we make every decision: in the blink of an eye or with well thought out decision making processes. In this book Gladwell explores the many different ways that we make decisions using our adaptive unconscious. He attempts to convince the reader that snap
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lives.In particular Malcolm Gladwell’s book explains a wealth of interesting information about humans and the way we think. Much of this information comes in discrete chunks‚ each of the results of a different social science experiment. The Love Lab‚ Marriage and Morse code‚and Importance of contempt. In these chapters Gladwell observes and explains how much you can find out about a person‚and relationships by watching clips to viewing a room to labeling a marriage. Gladwell gets to experience how
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Blink‚ by Malcolm Gladwell’s‚ discusses the idea of thin slicing‚ the ability of our unconscious to find patterns in situations from small samples. Gladwell also delves into the positive and negative effects of snap judgments and how people come to conclusions withoutbeing consciously aware of doing so. One topic of the book that intrigued me was the research of John Gottman and Paul Ekman. Gottman is a psychologist and professor who has spent most of his career studying interpersonal relationships
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As explained in Blink by Gladwell and Payne‚ unconscious discrimination is a type of discrimination that is very hard to recognize. We have all heard about explicit discrimination‚ which can take two forms: the individual level and the institutional level. At the individual level‚ people openly like. This can be seen in the case of bias hiring when an employer tells a postulant; “I will not hire you because you are a female.” At the institutional level‚ one of the most striking examples of discrimination
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Blink by Malcolm Gladwell explores the idea of “thin-slicing‚” which is the act of the brain only using a small bit of information to make a decision. These types of snap judgements are sometimes thought to be inferior to well thought out and studied decisions. Gladwell shows that well researched decisions are not always better decisions. Rapid cognition‚ or “thin-slicing‚” is observed in many cultures and is used by many people around the world. In some ways‚ one can make the case that “thin-slicing”
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In the book "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell‚ the central theory that Gladwell presents is that often the decisions and observations made in only a split-second‚ in the blink of the eye‚ are better than decisions which are made after extensive thought. To present and justify this idea Gladwell describes the lives of several people who make‚ or have made‚ important snap decisions with a high level of success or failure. He then explains the logic behind each story and relates it back to his original principle
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In the #1 national bestseller Blink‚ Malcolm Gladwell analyzes the way we think. Specifically‚ he explains the workings of the unconscious mind in making snap judgments and decisions. He proves that more information is not always a good thing‚ and some of the best decisions come from gut instinct. In the first chapter‚ Malcolm introduces the idea of thin-slicing‚ our unconscious ability to determine what is important in a very short period of time. In more basic terms‚ thin-slicing is our gut
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Book Title: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Genre: Psychology/Self-Help Author: Malcolm Gladwell Number of Pages: 286 Brief Summary and “Arrangement” of the Book: Malcom Gladwell published the most pleasant book‚ “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking‚” which he extended the landmark style of his number one international bestseller The Tipping Point. Gladwell transformed the ideas of how people understand the world within its rapid decisions. The Blink is about the
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Malcolm Gladwell‚ a best-selling author‚ describes the social phenomenon known as thin-slicing in his book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. Thin-slicing refers to the way that people take in little information quickly and make judgements with or without knowing they are doing so. Gladwell asserts that thin-slicing is imperative in save time and make valuable predictions. Gladwell’s inference is well supported with psychologists’ research and data collected on the subconscious. Gladwell’s
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