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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know

By Malcolm Gladwell, 2019 (Boston, Little Brown and Company)

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Weisburd, D. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know. Camb J Evid Based Polic 5, 67–75 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41887-020-00058-9

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