Gaining power by striking a pose

Psychologist Amy Cuddy became an Internet sensation with her TED Talk about empowerment - highlighting the relationship between posture and power. Rita Braver finds out from Cuddy how "power posing" is helping scores of people deal with the stress in their lives, by learning how to stand like a superhero.

[gaelg]

I'm very impressed by her powerful positive mindset.
A deep inspiration for most of us.
I've learned English on my own for some months and I recently found out about Amy Cuddy at the Tedd X conference. She gives me the willingness to keep going.
Thank you so much

[dr.erelevant]

The benefits of power-posing and this entire line of research have been debunked. Her co-author on the paper came out and admitted (after replication attempts failed) that the study was poorly designed with numerous artifacts and that they p-hacked (cheated to find statistical significance). There are numerous articles from reputable sources that discuss why power poses don't work and how the entire basis of her talk is not backed up by data at all. The problem with this is that she's encouraging people to conduct a behavior to get a result that simply doesn't work (similar to making sacrifices to the gods for rain), thus wasting their time and energy that could actually be spent on something that might actually help.