Coaching practices for Power Posing Replication
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- I keep waiting to feel confident before I’ll raise my hand or go for the thing, and the confidence never just shows up
- Right before something nerve-wracking I want a quick body-based way to feel a notch more sure of myself
- I keep seeing people swear that standing like a superhero for two minutes will spike my hormones and make me fearless, and I want to know what part of that is actually real before I pin my big moment on it.
- Everyone tells me to "just believe in myself more," but I’m not sure pumping up my confidence is even the right fix
- Stuck at a hard choice, "can I even do this?" just loops in my head and freezes me
Practices that may help
- Power Posing Revisited
Amy Cuddy’s original 2010 claim — that two minutes of expansive posture changes hormone levels and risk-taking — failed to replicate reliably, and even one of the original co-authors distanced herself from the hormonal mechanism. The more modest finding — that posture affects subjective confidence and behavior — has held up better, though the effect sizes are small. The honest take: posture matters, the original claims were overreached, and the useful practices are simpler and more defensible than the original study suggested. - Understand the "become it" claim accurately
Sustained behavioral practice of confidence — acting as if — can build real self-efficacy over time, through mastery experiences rather than pose duration.
Power Posing Revisited - Adopt expansive posture to shift subjective confidence
Upright, open posture — not a "power pose" — reliably correlates with higher self-reported confidence, even if the hormone claims did not hold.
Power Posing Revisited - Skip the hormonal "power pose" promises
Use posture for felt confidence, but don’t believe it’s changing your hormones.
Posture and Confidence, Honestly Explained - Pair confidence work with honest, accurate appraisal of your actual standing
Confidence without accurate self-assessment is overconfidence — the goal is calibrated self-belief, not boosted belief.
Power Posing Revisited - Borrow an identity temporarily by asking "what would [person] do?"
Temporarily adopting a role model’s identity in a specific context lowers the friction of acting as they would.
Identity Priming, Made Practical - Allow natural behavioral mimicry rather than forcing it
Unconscious mirroring happens automatically in warm interactions — over-deliberate mirroring breaks it.
Mirroring and Matching, Made Practical - Convey power
Signal that you have the ability to affect the world — competence, status, or capability.
The Charisma Myth, Made Practical - Influence through persuasion, not positional power
Build consensus and convince rather than command — authority is the last resort, not the first.
Servant Leadership, Made Practical - Invest in people’s ownership: give stakes and stay back
Multipliers give full ownership and hold people responsible; Diminishers over-resource and under-trust.
Multipliers: How Leaders Amplify the Intelligence Around Them
Related concerns
- Power Posing Does It Work
Amy Cuddy’s original 2010 claim — that two minutes of expansive posture changes hormone levels and risk-taking — failed to replicate reliably, and even one of the original co-authors distanced herself from the hormonal mechanism. The more modest finding — that posture affects subjective confidence and behavior — has held up better, though the effect sizes are small. The honest take: posture matters, the original claims were overreached, and the useful practices are simpler and more defensible than the original study suggested.
- Power Posing Revisited On A Budget
Amy Cuddy’s original 2010 claim — that two minutes of expansive posture changes hormone levels and risk-taking — failed to replicate reliably, and even one of the original co-authors distanced herself from the hormonal mechanism. The more modest finding — that posture affects subjective confidence and behavior — has held up better, though the effect sizes are small. The honest take: posture matters, the original claims were overreached, and the useful practices are simpler and more defensible than the original study suggested.
- Power Posing Revisited At Work
Amy Cuddy’s original 2010 claim — that two minutes of expansive posture changes hormone levels and risk-taking — failed to replicate reliably, and even one of the original co-authors distanced herself from the hormonal mechanism. The more modest finding — that posture affects subjective confidence and behavior — has held up better, though the effect sizes are small. The honest take: posture matters, the original claims were overreached, and the useful practices are simpler and more defensible than the original study suggested.
- Power Posing Revisited When Starting Out
Amy Cuddy’s original 2010 claim — that two minutes of expansive posture changes hormone levels and risk-taking — failed to replicate reliably, and even one of the original co-authors distanced herself from the hormonal mechanism. The more modest finding — that posture affects subjective confidence and behavior — has held up better, though the effect sizes are small. The honest take: posture matters, the original claims were overreached, and the useful practices are simpler and more defensible than the original study suggested.
- Power Posing What Works
Amy Cuddy’s original 2010 claim — that two minutes of expansive posture changes hormone levels and risk-taking — failed to replicate reliably, and even one of the original co-authors distanced herself from the hormonal mechanism. The more modest finding — that posture affects subjective confidence and behavior — has held up better, though the effect sizes are small. The honest take: posture matters, the original claims were overreached, and the useful practices are simpler and more defensible than the original study suggested.
- Does Power Posing Work
Amy Cuddy’s original 2010 claim — that two minutes of expansive posture changes hormone levels and risk-taking — failed to replicate reliably, and even one of the original co-authors distanced herself from the hormonal mechanism. The more modest finding — that posture affects subjective confidence and behavior — has held up better, though the effect sizes are small. The honest take: posture matters, the original claims were overreached, and the useful practices are simpler and more defensible than the original study suggested.
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