Summary Of Blink By Malcolm Gladwell

In Blink, Malcolm Gladwell discusses about the theories of snap judgment. There are many interesting themes that I have learn from his book. People judge other people within few seconds by looking at their behavior and appearance. The balance between rationalization and intuition. Human’s emotion can be seen in on the face even involuntary or voluntary. Interestingly, he also states that the less information is better if we can understand it clearly and correctly. The Blink book is a fascinating science book, it helps us to understand how to control our mind. However, there are still some illogical themes or arguments that need more explanation to avoid confusion of understanding. The facial expressions, the Amadou Diallo’s example, and the …show more content…
He wrote many logically and acknowledgedly about how people can show their emotion on their face voluntary or involuntary and we can predict the emotion through other faces. However, he did not mention about actors or people who can hide or control facial expression. In another word, actors are trained to control their expression. Some people try to hide their expression, so they can do whatever they want; for instance, felony criminal. Another fact that only the expert can read people's facial expression. If you are not an expert, you will not able to know people’s expression through their face. Lastly, he also forgot about people who have mood disorder. Mood disorder is a psychological disorder characterized by the elevation or lowering of a person's mood. According to the 2005 National Comorbidity Survey-Replication study, about 20.9 million American adults have mood disorders. When people have mood disorder, their emotion will not show in their face clearly. For example, when they look happy, but their actual expression is sad. Base on my research and acknowledge, all of those reasons above is showing that Gladwell needs more explanation to support his