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Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are | Amy Cuddy | TED
Amy Cuddy's TED talk arguing that adopting expansive postures, or power posing, can boost feelings of confidence and affect success. A note on the video points to the later reproducibility debate over its findings.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN brings it up in threads about impostor syndrome, confidence, and body language as an interesting talk on faking it until you feel it.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- TED
- Topic
- body language
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2013–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I am reminded of this interesting talk by Amy Cuddy on body language: [VIDEO] Most of it is not directly related (still worth watching!), but at about 15:42 in she gives her personal anecdote of impostor syndrome and "faking it til you make it". Which, …
ndonnellan on Hacker News · 2013-02
In Stanford Female CS Student: I Fight Impostor SyndromeIt might be. I bumped into this last week and I found it fascinating. Long to short, your body language not only affects how others perceive you, it affects how you perceive you. [VIDEO] That aside, I'm reading Adam Grants "Think Again." He mentioned at …
chiefalchemist on Hacker News · 2021-03
In Talking with your hands alters the perception of your words
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