Blink

I just finished reading Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. This book is about the split second decisions our mind makes subconsiously every day. It's about how we can "just know" something without knowing how we know it. I found many of the aspects covered interesting, but one of my favorite topics was the section about the interaction of couples. There is a psychologist that has studied married couples as they converse with each other. He can watch a 15 minute tape of them talking with each other about a neutral topic and predict with 90% accuracy if they will still be married 15 years later. There are a lot of things he looks for, but the number one predictor is how much contempt he sees between them. Also worth mentioning, is that he has found there needs to be a 5 to 1 ratio of positive to negitive interaction for a successful marriage. There are a lot of interesting tidbits throughout this book, especially for people interested in human behavior.