Saturday, February 12, 2005
The other book I read while I was on holiday a couple of weeks ago was
Malcolm Gladwell's Blink (author's own site)
The book is about how our subconscious helps us to make decisions - intuition and first impressions. He starts with a story about the Getty museum aquiring what they believed to be an ancient greek 'kouros' sculpture - but many experts who saw it felt that there was something wrong with it, but were unable to say for sure that it was a fake. It took several months research to prove that it was indeed a phoney.
Other parts of the book describe how researchers can observe a couple for an hour, and predict whether they are likely to divorce; the study of facial expressions; the skills of salesmanship; and military tactics.
Review on Slashdot Amazon
Tags: books psychology
Malcolm Gladwell's Blink (author's own site)
The book is about how our subconscious helps us to make decisions - intuition and first impressions. He starts with a story about the Getty museum aquiring what they believed to be an ancient greek 'kouros' sculpture - but many experts who saw it felt that there was something wrong with it, but were unable to say for sure that it was a fake. It took several months research to prove that it was indeed a phoney.
Other parts of the book describe how researchers can observe a couple for an hour, and predict whether they are likely to divorce; the study of facial expressions; the skills of salesmanship; and military tactics.
Review on Slashdot Amazon
Tags: books psychology
