The Person and the Situation pdf

born: (3 September 1963)
is an English born Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker.He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996.Gladwell's writings often deal with the unexpected implications of research in the social sciences, like sociology and psychology, and make frequent and extended use of academic work. Gladwell was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2011.Gladwell was born in Fareham, Hampshire, England. His mother is Joyce (née Nation) Gladwell, a Jamaican psychotherapist. His father, Graham Gladwell, was a mathematics professor from Kent, England.When he was six his family moved from Southampton to the Mennonite community of Elmira, Ontario, Canada.He has two brothers.Throughout his childhood, Malcolm lived in rural Ontario Mennonite country, where he attended a Mennonite church.Research done by historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. revealed that one of Gladwell's maternal ancestors was a Jamaican free woman of colour (mixed black and white) who was a slaveowner.His great-great-great-grandmother was of Igbo ethnicity from Nigeria, West Africa. In the epilogue of his book Outliers he describes many lucky circumstances that came to his family over the course of several generations, contributing to his path towards success.Gladwell has said that his mother is his role model as a writer.
 He has published seven books:
-The Tipping Point (2000)
-Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005)
-Outliers: The Story of Success (2008)
-What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (2009)
-David and Goliath (2013)
-Talking To Strangers (2019)
-The Bomber Mafia (2021)

The Person and the Situation pdf by Malcolm Gladwell

The Person and the Situation: Perspectives of Social Psychology

How does the situation we're in influence the way we behave and think? Professors Ross and Nisbett eloquently argue that the context we find ourselves in substantially affects our behavior in this timely reissue of one of social psychology's classic textbooks.
"I still remember when I first read The Person and the Situation. It was in 1996. I had never taken any psychology courses in college, so the name Nisbett and Ross – not to mention Kurt Lewin and Solomon Asch – meant nothing to me. I didn’t know what the Fundamental Attribution Error was. I had, from my days as a science writer at the Washington Post, a passing acquaintance with the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and that was it. But by some happy series of coincidences I fell in love with psychology that summer, and started spending long afternoons at the New York University library, browsing through academic journals. I would find an article I really liked, and then read as many of the most interesting bits of the bibliography of that article as I could, and then the most interesting bits of the bibliography of those articles – and on and on, walking back the cat, as they say in the intelligence world. (You can kill a lot of afternoons at NYU library that way.) Anyway, the cat I kept finding at the end of those walks was The Person and the Situation. So one day, I sat down in one of the carrels at Bobst Library and devoured it in one sitting. And because I didn’t have borrowing privileges, I photocopied it, front to back, in violation – I am now ashamed to admit – of every rule of copyright. I still have that bundle of pirated pages on my bookshelf. I hope Professors Ross and Nisbett will consider this foreword as partial reparation."