In the book ¨Blink¨, the author Malcolm Gladwell explains his research on how the brain makes connections and comes to conclusions. One does this from the information around them without even knowing, which is called “thin-slicing”. “Thin-slicing” is one’s skill in their unconscious with a small amount of experience to “find patterns in situations” (23) and make an accurate explanation.
In Gladwell’s first section, ‘The Love Lab’, the psychologist John Gottman gives his analysis of the data he has received while examining married couples and their interactions. He can predict the future the couple has on staying together, with a 90% success rate. All Gottman has to do, is watch a 15 minute conversation between the couple. Then, with some equations and close observations, he can decode every emotion and expression, most of which the participant does unknowingly and subconsciously. Gottman has learned to “read every emotional nuance in people’s facial expressions and how to interpret seemingly ambiguous bits of dialogue” (21). Gottman has gotten so efficient that he can even decode an unknowing couple, in a public place, in just a few minutes.
In Gladwell’s second section, he looks at a couple arguing over something as simple as a pet, and then can decipher each of their unconscious feelings into much more. For …show more content…
These even have been shown to be more correct than if you were to “use your conscious and deliberate thinking” (23), such as shown in the love lab. The three sections covered in Chapter 1 focused on the love lab, the “morse code” patterns of couples, and the main four emotions used in Gottsman marriage predictions. Gladwell connects with his audience by using real examples of people, true stories of his success, and ways everyone can use what he has come to use daily in their daily life as
In Gladwell’s first section, ‘The Love Lab’, the psychologist John Gottman gives his analysis of the data he has received while examining married couples and their interactions. He can predict the future the couple has on staying together, with a 90% success rate. All Gottman has to do, is watch a 15 minute conversation between the couple. Then, with some equations and close observations, he can decode every emotion and expression, most of which the participant does unknowingly and subconsciously. Gottman has learned to “read every emotional nuance in people’s facial expressions and how to interpret seemingly ambiguous bits of dialogue” (21). Gottman has gotten so efficient that he can even decode an unknowing couple, in a public place, in just a few minutes.
In Gladwell’s second section, he looks at a couple arguing over something as simple as a pet, and then can decipher each of their unconscious feelings into much more. For …show more content…
These even have been shown to be more correct than if you were to “use your conscious and deliberate thinking” (23), such as shown in the love lab. The three sections covered in Chapter 1 focused on the love lab, the “morse code” patterns of couples, and the main four emotions used in Gottsman marriage predictions. Gladwell connects with his audience by using real examples of people, true stories of his success, and ways everyone can use what he has come to use daily in their daily life as