Cuddy discovered that spending two minutes in a “power pose”—meaning a posture of dominance (like “Wonder Woman”: hands on hips, elbows cocked wide, legs firmly planted)—changed both psychology and physiology. In her research, subjects who adopted the Wonder Woman posture took greater risks and took them more frequently. And two minutes of the pose was enough to increase levels of the dominance hormone testosterone by 20 percent and decrease the stress hormone cortisol by 15 percent. While the field of embodied cognition is in its infancy, and there is still lots of work to be done replicating
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