High conflict : why we get trapped and how we get out /
Amanda Ripley.
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- xiv, 352 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Amanda Ripley received a B.A. in government from Cornell University in 1996. She is a journalist whose stories on human behavior and public policy have appeared in Time, The Atlantic, and Slate and helped Time win two National Magazine Awards. She is the author of The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why, which was turned into a PBS documentary, and The Smartest Kids in the World - and How They Got That Way. She is currently an Emerson Fellow at the New America Foundation.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. into conflict the understory of conflict the power of the binary the fire starters part II. out of conflict. buying time making space reverse engineering complicating the narrative appendix I: how to recognize high conflict in the world appendix II: how to recognize high conflict in yourself appendix III: how to prevent high conflict
"In the tradition of bestselling explainers like The Tipping Point, the first popular book based on cutting edge science that breaks down the idea of extreme conflict, the kind that paralyzes people and places, and then shows how to escape it"--
9781982128579
2020043664
Social conflict. Interpersonal conflict. Conflict management.