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What Causes What
SMOKE

Expansive posture (power pose) Economic risk tolerance

Expansive posture is not a Holt–Laury intervention. The 2010 risk result did not replicate.

Randomized trial · High confidence · N=200

The association does not survive the backdoor. Usually SES, outdoor time, or healthy-user bias.

Mechanism

The 2010 paper used a gambling task after the pose. Ranehill et al. measured risk-taking in a larger mixed-sex sample and found no difference. If a pose changed risk, it would still not identify status or income. It does not clear the first gate.

Caveats

Self-reported feelings of power are a different outcome. This edge is behavior and hormones, not mood.

Effect

qualitative. Ranehill 2015 found no risk-taking effect of the pose.

Nodes

Named confounders

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What Causes What. “Expansive posture (power pose) → Economic risk tolerance.” https://whatcauseswhat.org/edges/e-pose-risk (atlas updated 2026-08-31).

https://whatcauseswhat.org/edges/e-pose-risk

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