Your body language shapes who you are

[Vince]

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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. Interactive transcriptInteractive transcript[video]https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are?la nguage=en[/video]

 

[Vince]

In this video, she tells you how to raise your testosterone ( which wouldn't matter to someone on TRT) and lower your cortisol by 25%. In 2 minutes.

 

[Nelson Vergel]

I love TED videos. My dream is to one day speak in one of TED's conferences about my experiences with web-based patient education for improved resilience. I applied but have not heard back.

This presentation is particularly interesting !

 

[BBaller]

I like to point people toward Mike Cernovich's articles on testosterone and posture and his experiments with using posture to increase his T levels after going off T cold turkey.

 

[bako]

Wow, excellent video. I'm going to show my college bound daughter this video tonight. She thinks that she doesn't belong in the school that accepted her. Very timely.

 

[CoastWatcher]

One of the fundamental tenets pertaining to research of this sort is the ability for others to independently replicate the results. It would seem no one has been able to do so.

"Using a much larger sample size but similar procedures as Carney et al. did, we failed to confirm an effect of power posing on testosterone, cortisol, and financial risk taking. We did find that power posing affected self-reported feelings of power; however, this did not yield behavioral effects."

http://datacolada.org/wp-content/up...erance-in-a-large-sample-of-men-and-women.pdf

 

[bako]

Yes I believe the claims testosterone increase are false, but I do like the power posing idea. I can see how that could put a person in the proper state of mind. When I was a young man I generally walked with my head down eyes on the ground. I didn't even realize it. One day an old man spots me walking by and says "young man there is nothing on the ground. Look up...chin up always. I took his advice and I felt better immediately. I still think about that old man, and I still walk chin held high.