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Sharing Amy Cuddy's Ted Talk with the Women of PS

This is great! Thanks for sharing LV!
 
Bumping this just in case anyone missed it the first time around and might find it interesting. I actually searched for this thread yesterday morning because I needed a little boost from AC!
 
This is SO funny that you posted this - I am a professor at a university in the U.S. and I literally just showed this video in my class YESTERDAY!!! I show Amy Cuddy every semester - I think she's fascinating!!! I tell all my students to do "the wonder woman" or some other power pose before coming in to give their speeches in my public speaking class.
 
Actually, I showed a different version, but same idea.
 
That is wonderful to hear. I wish I had seen this when I was in college and literally terrified of speaking in class.

Can you post the other version here? :appl:
 
Very inspirational! I'm going to work on a power-pose and using it to see if it has an affect on me!
 
Surely!


She is so awesome - I'd give anything to sit in on one of her classes at Harvard! I might just email her to tell her about how much my students appreciate her video in class.
 
I just looked her up on the Harvard website, and it says she is no longer with the Harvard School of Business. I wonder if she's just a lecturer now?

Also, cool fact about her in an online bio I read...she had a traumatic car accident resulting in some brain damage in her 2nd year of college - the doctors told her that she could have trouble finishing her undergraduate degree. Her IQ went down by 30 points as a result of this accident, but she still finished her undergrad and then her PhD at PRINCETON. What an accomplishment! :appl:
 
tyty333 said:
Very inspirational! I'm going to work on a power-pose and using it to see if it has an affect on me!
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Let us know if it works!!!
 
Excellent! Thank you!
 
I think this is super interesting, we were just talking about this in a seminar last weekend. But this work by Amy Cuddy is super controversial now, no one has been able to replicate it. One of the co-researchers came out and said it was basically bunk...! We've used the power poses at work & a lot of motivational speakers use it...I guess even if it's a placebo effect, if it feels good, why not?

http://fortune.com/2016/10/02/power-poses-research-false/
 
bludiva said:
I think this is super interesting, we were just talking about this in a seminar last weekend. But this work by Amy Cuddy is super controversial now, no one has been able to replicate it. One of the co-researchers came out and said it was basically bunk...! We've used the power poses at work & a lot of motivational speakers use it...I guess even if it's a placebo effect, if it feels good, why not?

http://fortune.com/2016/10/02/power-poses-research-false/
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Wow! That's interesting Bludiva - so I wonder what accounted for the findings??? Bad data analysis or some kind of fluke variable that can't be identified? I agree, if a placebo effect is taking place, who cares :))
 
violet3 said:
Wow! That's interesting Bludiva - so I wonder what accounted for the findings??? Bad data analysis or some kind of fluke variable that can't be identified? I agree, if a placebo effect is taking place, who cares :))
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It goes beyond my technical understanding of statistics but basically she took a weak correlation and blew it out of proportion from what I gather. I think that happens more often than we realize but since it became so popular, it came under harsher scrutiny.
 
I found this article today - very interesting. It's her explanation of what has happened since the original power pose experiment in 2009. So it seems that the hormone differences could not be replicated - that the data on that is inconclusive. I am experienced in social science research (my discipline is communication), and if you cannot replicate data results, then that data is not reliable. I wonder what accounted for that finding in the first study then? Some kind of fluke thing? That would be frustrating, because they might never be able to figure it out. This article does say that her data was released to the public, and was subject to a rigorous re-analysis of the data set. I wouldn't imagine she could hide it if she had used the wrong analysis measures, or inflated the statistics and/or correlations.

The overall stance that people feel more powerful when they use expansive postures is interesting for sure, but it's not nearly as interesting as the hormone level changes. That was the big game changer for her, making her TED talk go viral and giving her a $1,000,000 advance to write a book on the power pose effect. I'd still be interested to see what she is working on in the future - at least she has some interesting & unique ideas! I wonder if this has any correlation to the fact that she no longer is with the Harvard School of Business - I looked her up and that is what it said when I clicked on her name.

Here's the article:

https://ideas.ted.com/inside-the-debate-about-power-posing-a-q-a-with-amy-cuddy/
 
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