Amy Cuddy: one-second judgments of faces predict election results

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A striking finding from the TED talk on body language: how fast we judge people from their faces.

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Has shown us that judgments of political candidates faces in just one second predict 70% of US Senate and gubernatorial race outcomes. And even, let's go digital, emoticons used well in online negotiations can lead you to claim more value from that negotiation. If you use them poorly, bad idea. Right? So

Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are | Amy Cuddy | TED

TED · Video published October 1, 2012

Chapter: Power and body language

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0:00The impact of body language
2:08Power and body language
3:42Can we fake power?
7:15The science of power posing
10:25Results of the experiment
12:30Application in interviews
15:39Fake it till you become it
19:32Tiny tweaks, big changes

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Can a power pose make people take part more? Amy Cuddy on her study7:00 – 7:20And would it lead them to participate more? So my main collaborator, Dana Carney, who's at Berkeley, and I really wanted to know, can you fake it till you make it? Like, can you…

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