Expansive posture (power pose)
Two minutes of expansive stance, claimed to raise T, cut cortisol, and lift risk-taking. The larger replication did not.
Carney, Cuddy, and Yap (2010) assigned 42 people to expansive versus contractive poses and reported neuroendocrine and risk effects. Ranehill et al. (2015) ran 200 people and found no hormone or risk change. Simmons and Simonsohn (2017) p-curved the supportive set and found it consistent with selective reporting. The TED talk is not an identification strategy.
Also called power posing, expansive posture, postural feedback.
Connected relationships
Randomized trial · High confidence
Expansive posture (power pose)→Economic risk tolerance
A rise in Expansive posture (power pose) does not identify a change in Economic risk tolerance.
Expansive posture is not a Holt–Laury intervention. The later RCTs are nulls on the gambling choice.
Randomized trial · High confidence
Expansive posture (power pose)→Testosterone
A rise in Expansive posture (power pose) does not identify a change in Testosterone.
Two minutes in a stance does not identify an androgen change. The larger RCTs are nulls. The TED talk is not a protocol.
Cases
Sources
- D. R. Carney et al. (2010). Power Posing: Brief Nonverbal Displays Affect Neuroendocrine Levels and Risk Tolerance
- E. Ranehill et al. (2015). Assessing the Robustness of Power Posing: No Effect on Hormones and Risk Tolerance in a Large Sample of Men and Women
- E Barel et al. (2024). The effects of power posing on neuroendocrine levels and risk-taking.
- J. P. Simmons et al. (2017). Power Posing: P-Curving the Evidence