Popular Advice That Is Ruining Your Life
Description: -"Fake it till you make it" got its most famous scientific backing from power posing, and what happened next is worth knowing.
The original study reported that standing in an expansive posture changed your hormones and your appetite for risk. Then Eva Ranehill and her colleagues repeated it with a sample about five times larger. The hormone and risk effects disappeared. What survived was the smaller result: posing made people feel more powerful. Feeling powerful and performing well turned out to be two different things.
Which is the case for practicing competence instead. The feeling is downstream of the evidence, not the other way round.
Ranehill, E., Dreber, A., Johannesson, M., Leiberg, S., Sul, S., & Weber, R. A. (2015). Assessing the robustness of power posing. Psychological Science, 26 (5), 653–656.
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The original study reported that standing in an expansive posture changed your hormones and your appetite for risk. Then Eva Ranehill and her colleagues repeated it with a sample about five times larger. The hormone and risk effects disappeared. What survived was the smaller result: posing made people feel more powerful. Feeling powerful and performing well turned out to be two different things.
Which is the case for practicing competence instead. The feeling is downstream of the evidence, not the other way round.
Ranehill, E., Dreber, A., Johannesson, M., Leiberg, S., Sul, S., & Weber, R. A. (2015). Assessing the robustness of power posing. Psychological Science, 26 (5), 653–656.
Follow @danielpink for behavioral science you can put to work the same day you read it.-
To find out more about Daniel Pink, his books, and view his resources, visit https://danpink.com Close description