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Malcolm Gladwell's Blink
Throughout the novel, “Blink” by Malcolm Gladwell, Gladwell discusses the theory of thin slicing. Thin Slicing “refers to the ability of our unconscious to find patterns in situations and behavior based on very narrow slices of experience” (23) Gladwell convinced me of this theory because he provided many resources and many studies.
For example, John Gottman and the University of Washington’s study, ‘The Love Lab’. Where Gottman records a couple’s for fifteen minutes, and by doing so Gottman’s results were analyzed according to SPAFF,A coding system that has twenty different categories for every emotion that a married couple might have during conversations. Analyzing these results Gottman can predict which couples will get a divorce and which
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