In Blink, journalist Malcolm Gladwell examines the split-second judgments and unconscious pattern-recognition that shape decisions long before conscious reasoning kicks in. Drawing on case studies from art authentication, marriage counseling, military war games, and police shootings, he explores both the uncanny accuracy and the serious perils of instant intuition. The book argues that thin-slicing, rapid judgment from very limited information, can be trained and structured for reliability, but is also vulnerable to bias, overload, and misread signals under pressure.
The Inside Story of the Harding Tragedy by Harry M. Daugherty: “Daugherty, The Inside Story of the Harding Tragedy (New York: Ayer, 1960); and Andrew Sinclair, The Available Man...”
Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious by Timothy D. Wilson: “Wilson writes in his book Strangers to Ourselves: "The mind operates most efficiently by relegating a good deal of high-level, sophisticated thinking to the unconscious, just as a modern jetliner is able to fly on automatic pilot..."”
The Real Coke, the Real Story by Thomas Oliver: “For the best telling of the Coke story, see Thomas Oliver, The Real Coke, the Real Story (New York: Random House, 1986).”
False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes by Thomas Hoving: “The best account is by Thomas Hoving, in chapter 18 of False Impressions: The Hunt for Big Time Art Fakes (London: Andre Deutsch, 1996).”
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee: “The movie they chose was the 1966 film version of the Edward Albee play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor as a husband and wife who invite a much younger couple, played by George Segal and Sandy Dennis, for what turns out to be an intense a[fternoon].”
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare: “Harding, according to Russell, could have put on a toga and stepped onstage in a production of Julius Caesar.”
Books that mention Blink (2)
David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell: “He was also mentioned in my book Blink, discussing the art of casting actors.”
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell: “In my second book, Blink (Little, Brown and Company, 2005), I devoted a large chunk of Chapter Six, “Seven Seconds in the Bronx: The Delicate Art of Mind Reading,” to a discussion of the work of Paul Ekman, one of the most important psychologists of the last century.”