What is Your Body Saying?

12/16/2016

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, orator and statesman, 1818-1995

Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how "power posing"—standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don't feel confident—can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain, and might even have an impact on our chances for success.

Check out Cuddy's TedTalk, "Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are," for more.

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