Your Body Language shapes who you are D talk by Amy Cuddy Presented by: Haneesh Venga IIT MADRA
Your Body Language shapes who you are
TED talk by Amy Cuddy Presented by: Haneesh Vengala IIT MADRAS
We are always particularly interested in other people body languages
We are always particularly Interested inOther people Body languages.
And make sweeping judgementsInferences from body languages .
Those judgements can predict life Outcomes like who we hire or who Ask on a date.
In animal kingdom, animals open up or expand their
arms showing they are powerful.
The same goes with humans
too , they give different kinds
of poses of opening up
We always tend to do the complement of other non-verbals,
When somebody powerful is with us ,we tend to make ourselves small not feel powerful
WE know that our non verbals govern how other people
think and feel about us
But OUR real Question
IS?
Do our non verbals govern how we feel about ourselves?
Do our body language influence our minds?
What do minds of powerful and powerless look like?
In terms of hormones
Powerful people have more testosteroneOr the dominance hormone and less cortisol or
the stress hormone
In weaklings it’s the opposite
EXPERIMENT . Few people were asked to be in higher poses and lower poses. . After that they were sent to a stressful job interview, and the interviewers were asked to not to give any non verbal feed back and the interview are being recorded.
RESULT!!
The interviewers wanted to hire thethe ones who had done high power poses rather than the ones who had done low power poses.
RESULT!!
The recruiters wanted to hire the one onesWho had done high power
poses rather than The ones who had done low power poses
Also the coders who were listening to the interview also
responded that the high power pose ones should be hired.
They bring their true selves , ideasand present them as themselves,
Feeling confident and with no residue over them.
They have been SUCCESSFUL because