"Royally entertaining."

-- Time

"Smart, provocative... influential."

--San Francisco Chronicle

"A really fun ride... Gladwell is without peer."

--Chicago Tribune

"Gladwell’s real genius is as a storyteller. He’s like an omniscient, many-armed Hindu god of anecdotes: he plucks them from every imaginable field of human endeavor... Royally entertaining."

--Lev Grossman, Time

In his international 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.

INTRODUCTION

The Statue That Didn’t Look Right 

ONE

The Theory of Thin Slices: How a Little Bit of Knowledge Goes a Long Way 

TWO

The Locked Door: The Secret Life of Snap Decisions 

THREE

The Warren Harding Error: Why We Fall or Tall, Dark, and Handsome Men 

FOUR

Paul Van Riper’s Big Victory: eating Structure for Spontaneity 

FIVE

Kenna’s Dilemma: The Right-- and Wrong--Way to Ask People What They Want 

SIX

Seven Seconds in the Bronx: The Delicate Art of Mind Reading 

CONCLUSION

Listening with Your Eyes: The Lessons of Blink 

Notes 

Acknowledgments 

Index