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Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink presents a wealth of interesting information about humans and the way we think. Much of this information comes in discrete chunks, each the result of a different social science experiment. Many of these ideas are applicable to the rest of our lives. “The Secrets Of The Bedroom” and “Listening To Doctors” both show ways of telling what a person is like or things about the person without meeting the person. One of the most interesting experiments, “The Secrets Of The Bedroom” showed how you can get to know people by looking at their bedroom and seeing how they live. In the experiment led by Samuel Gosling, he had 80 students take a personality test. After the students' test was over, Gosling had another group of students who were friends with the 80 original students take the same personality test answering the questions on their friends behalf. He then had complete strangers fill out the test for a student while sitting in the student’s dorm room. He then compared the three tests …show more content…

In this experiment, Wendy Levinson recorded the conversations of hundreds of patients talking with their physicians. Half of these doctors had been sued at least twice, the half hadn't been sued. Levinson could see slight differences in the two groups that were telltale signs of who was who. Doctors that haven't been sued were more open with the patient and listened better, even spent more time with their patients. while doctors who had been sued seemed to not feel as obligated to give them additional info to make the patients more comfortable and educated. They also spoke to them in a less enthusiastic, almost rude tone. The experiment shows how if you're nice to people they will be nice to you. A patient is nine times out of ten going to sue a doctor they don't like over a doctor they like, and this not only applies to doctors and lawsuits but any interaction with

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