Term
Thin slicing
A concept from Nalini Ambady and Robert Rosenthal: the ability to spot patterns in a person's behavior from a very small sample of it.
Read People Like a Book: How to Analyze, Understand, and Predict People's Emotions, Thoughts, Intentions, and Behaviors, Patrick King
Explained in
- Read People Like a Book: How to Analyze, Understand, and Predict People's Emotions, Thoughts, Intentions, and Behaviors, Patrick King
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell
Gladwell’s term for detecting a pattern from a brief fragment of experience. An image from the book, not an exact scientific measure.