Amy Cuddy, a social psychologist speaks about how body language affects us and how other people see us. She has shown how confidence can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain. Social Scientist look how our body language reflects on our judgement. Those judgements predict really meaningful life outcomes such as, who we hire, who we promote or who we ask out on a date. Nani a researcher showed that when we watch a silent 30 second clip of real physician patient interaction, the judgement of the physician niceness will determine if the physician will get sued or not. We also tend to forget the other judgement and that is us, we are also influenced in our non verbal. She became interested in power dynamic, especially in nonverbal expression in power and dominance. …show more content…
Our nonverbals do govern how we think of ourselves. You can really apply this anywhere for example, walking into the cafeteria , speaking in public and more importantly a job interview. For example, when you are waiting for a job interview, you are sitting in a closed off position and on your phone, when you really should be doing power poses in the bathroom and preparing yourself. They did another experiment and they either did high or low power poses again before going into a very stressful job interview. The job interview is five minutes long, they are being recorded and judged. The judgers were given instructions to give nonverbal feedback. Then they had coders look at the tapes and chose which people they would higher, they had no idea who did what pose. The coders ended up wanting to higher all the ones who did high power poses because they were much more positive overall. After she went to tell her own personal experience with this. Cuddy, when she was 19 she was in a very bad car accident and had a serious head