Summary Ted body language
I assume that the main idea of this video was to share with the audience interesting facts about
how our movements and poses affect all areas of our lives and our place in society. Amy Cuddy pinpointed
in her speech that When we think about communication, we think about interactions. And we also make
sweeping judgments and inferences from body language. And those judgments can predict really
meaningful life outcomes like who we hire or promote, who we ask out on a date.
Later the speaker informed us that when we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge
others, how they judge us and what the outcomes are. We are also influenced by our nonverbals, our
thoughts and our feelings and our physiology.
Amy studied poses that express nonverbal expressions of power and dominance and their effect
on people. She noticed that in this way, you make yourself big, you stretch, you take up space, you
basically open up. This is not limited to primates only.
And when we feel powerless we do exactly the opposite. We close up and make ourselves small.
So when you feel powerful, you're more likely to do this, but it's also possible that when you pretend to
be powerful, you are more likely to actually feel powerful. It also happens with bad emotions. All our
postures affect the level of hormones that make us feel stronger or weaker.
At the end of the speech, the speaker said that trying to deceive yourself and your body in this
way, you are not pretending but making yourself stronger