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Giant Brain Candy: What Power Poses Really Do. Two minutes of ‘power posing’ was said to change your hormones. A replication nearly five times larger found no hormone change, though people did feel a little more powerful. Source: Power posing, retested.
Growing evidenceThe research
  1. Carney, D. R., Cuddy, A. J. C., & Yap, A. J. (2010). Power posing: Brief nonverbal displays affect neuroendocrine levels and risk tolerance. Psychological Science, 21(10), 1363–1368.
  2. Ranehill, E., Dreber, A., Johannesson, M., Leiberg, S., Sul, S., & Weber, R. A. (2015). Assessing the robustness of power posing: No effect on hormones and risk tolerance in a large sample of men and women. Psychological Science, 26(5), 653–656.

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What Power Poses Really Do

Two minutes of ‘power posing’ was said to change your hormones. A replication nearly five times larger found no hormone change, though people did feel a little more powerful.

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