Internship 2- Your Body Language May Shape Who YOU are Quiz

What are nonverbal expressions of power and dominance?

Opening Up - Making yourself large

According to the presenter in the video, she has this advice: Before you go into the next stressful evaluative situation, for two minutes, try doing the Wonder Women pose, in the elevator, in a bathroom stall, at your desk behind closed doors. That's what you want to do. Configure your brain to cope the best in that situation. Get your testosterone up. Get your cortisol down. Don't leave that situation feeling like, oh, I didn't show them who I am. Leave that situation feeling like, I really feel like I got to say who I am and show who I am.

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Here's what we find on testosterone. From their baseline when they come in, high-power people experience about a 20-percent increase, and low-power people experience about a 10-percent decrease.

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Nalini Ambady, a researcher at Tufts University, shows that when people watch 30-second soundless clips of real physician-patient interactions, their judgments of the physician's niceness predict whether or not that physician will be sued.

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What do we do when we feel powerless?

We close up. We wrap ourselves up