Super Soul Special: Malcolm Gladwell: Talking to Strangers
Oprah's Super Soul
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The Amanda Knox Case in a Nutshell
We are conditioned by evolution to basically assume that everyone is telling the truth, unless there's some overwhelming reason to believe otherwise. A psychologist called tim levine has brilliantly rethought some of the most central issues about how human beings communicate. We're just all with some excluding ju s. Judges are bad at it, cops are bad at its, a few tiny exceptions,. but generally, we're not good at it. If every statement you make doesn't work, then the world doesn't work. And what that means for us is when someone really is lying to us, this one time out of a hundred, when they try to deceive us, we're going to get deceived too.
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