Amy Cuddy| Fake it til you Become it, Power Posing

Speakers Amy Cuddy: Social Psychologist

Amy Cuddy's research on body language reveals that we can change other people's perceptions — and even our own body chemistry — simply by changing body positions.

Why you should listen to her:

Amy Cuddy wasn't supposed to become a successful scientist. In fact, she wasn't even supposed to finish her undergraduate degree. Early in her college career, Cuddy suffered a severe head injury in a car accident, and doctors said she would struggle to fully regain her mental capacity and finish her undergraduate degree.
But she proved them wrong. Today, Cuddy is a professor and researcher at Harvard Business School, where she studies how nonverbal behavior and snap judgments affect people from the classroom to the boardroom. And her training as a classical dancer (another skill she regained after her injury) is evident in her fascinating work on "power posing" -- how your body position influences others and even your own brain.
"Using a few simple tweaks to body language, Harvard researcher Amy Cuddy discovers ways to help people become more powerful."
TIME Game Changers, March 19, 2012

Quotes by Amy Cuddy

  • "Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it."
  • "Our bodies change our minds, and our minds can change our behavior, and our behavior can change our outcomes."
  • "When we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others. … We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals: ourselves."


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