Introduction to Cognitive and Information Sciences

Readings from Blink

Malcolm Gladwell’s best-seller Blink (Little, Brown and Company, 2005) is, as his subtitle describes it, a book about “Thinking without Thinking.” I will talk about how some of the ideas raised in Blink relate to philosophical conceptions of thought at the end of my lecture on Thursday. Before I give that talk, it would be helpful for you to have a sense of what the book talks about, which you can get from the following readings: Malcolm Gladwell’s short description of Blink on his website http://www.gladwell.com/blink/ The excerpt on “The Second Mind” from the introduction http://www.gladwell.com/blink/blink_excerpt1.html Ambady and Rosenthal, “Half a minute: Predicting teacher evaluations from thin slices of nonverbal behavior and physical attactiveness” http://ase.tufts.edu/psychology/ambady/pubs/1993Ambady.pdf